XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on SAX (Simple API for XML). Topics include introduction to SAX programming interface; Original Java implementation of SAX; SAX 1.0 and 2.0 standards; Java example of parsing XML files using SAX; printing SAX parsing pattern.

What Is SAX (Simple API for XML)?

Using SAX Implementation Provided in JDK 1.4

SAX Content Handler Interface

SAXBrowser.java - SAX Interface Java Example

SAX Parsing Pattern Example

Conclusion:

• SAX (Simple API for XML) is an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows applications to process XML files by handling events fired by the parser while it traverses the XML structure.
• There no formal specifications of SAX. The original SAX Java implementation by the SAX Project is considered as the SAX standard.
• The SAX Project has released 2 versions so far: SAX 1.0 in 1998 and SAX 2.0 in 2000.
• The main part of SAX is a group of event handler methods defined in the org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler interface.
• JDK 1.4 has built-in support of SAX interface that allows you to process XML files by implementing the org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler interface.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

 XML File Browsers

 DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

►SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

 DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified XML Schema

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

 XPath (XML Path) Language

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

 References

 Printable Copy - PDF Version