SAX (Simple API for XML) Implementation in JDK

This section provides a tutorial example on how to write a simple program to find out what are the implementation classes for the SAX interfaces in JDK. The key is to call the javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance() method.

What is SAX (Simple API for XML)? SAX is an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows the parser to fire events based on the XML structure while parsing an XML file. It allows application programs to process the contents of the XML by handling the events fired by the parser.

SAX has been implemented in Java in J2SDK 1.4.1_01, which is already installed on my system. So I am ready to play with XML files through SAX in Java.

The first task is to find out how JDK supports SAX. To do this, I wrote this simple program here, SAXClassChecker.java, to show what are the implementation classes for the SAX interfaces:

/* SAXClassChecker.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
class SAXClassChecker {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      try {
         File x = new File(args[0]);
         SAXParserFactory f = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
         System.out.println(f.toString());
         SAXParser p = f.newSAXParser();
         System.out.println(p.toString());
         DefaultHandler h = new DefaultHandler();
         System.out.println(h.toString());
         p.parse(x,h);
      } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
         System.out.println(e.toString());
      } catch (SAXException e) {
         System.out.println(e.toString());
      } catch (IOException e) {
         System.out.println(e.toString());
      }
   }
}

Run the program with JDK 1.8 or higher, you will get:

herong> java SAXClassChecker.java hello.xml
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl@1db9742
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@106d69c
org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler@52e922

Note that:

If you are using JDK 1.4.1, the output should look like:

herong> \j2sdk1.4.1_01\bin\java SAXClassChecker hello.xml
org.apache.crimson.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl@1c78e57
org.apache.crimson.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@1e63e3d
org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler@1be2d65

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SAX (Simple API for XML) Implementation in JDK

 SAX Content Handler Interface

 SAXBrowser.java - SAX Based XML Browser

 DTD (Document Type Definition) - XML Validation

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) - XML Validation

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