Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days

By Steven Holzner

• Table of Contents
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Part I: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Welcome to XML
  • Day 2. Creating XML Documents
  • Day 3. Creating Well-Formed XML Documents
  • Day 4. Creating Valid XML Documents: DTDs
  • Declaring Attributes in DTDs
  • Day 6. Creating Valid XML Documents: XML Schemas
  • Day 7. Creating Types in XML Schemas
  • Part I. In Review
  • Day 8. Formatting XML by Using Cascading Style Sheets
  • Day 9. Formatting XML by Using XSLT
  • Day 10. Working with XSL Formatting Objects
  • Part II. In Review
  • Part III: At a Glance
  • Day 11. Extending HTML with XHTML
  • Day 12. Putting XHTML to Work
  • Day 13. Creating Graphics and Multimedia: SVG and SMIL
  • Day 14. Handling XLinks, XPointers, and XForms
  • Part III. In Review
  • Part IV: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Using JavaScript and XML
  • Day 16. Using Java and .NET: DOM
  • Day 17. Using Java and .NET: SAX
    • An Overview of SAX
    • Using SAX
    • Using SAX to Find Elements by Name
    • Creating an XML Browser by Using Java and SAX
    • Navigating Through XML Documents by Using SAX
    • Writing XML by Using Java and SAX
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Day 18. Working with SOAP and RDF
  • Part IV. In Review
  • Part V: At a Glance
  • Day 19. Handling XML Data Binding
  • Day 20. Working with XML and Databases
  • Day 21. Handling XML in .NET
  • Part V. In Review
  • Appendix A. Quiz Answers

Day 17. Using Java and .NET: SAX

Yesterday, you used Java and the DOM model to work your way through XML documents. Some programmers find the DOM way of doing things pretty complex, however, because it requires us to search out our data in the XML document. Instead of having to go get our data, those programmers say, wouldn't it be easier if that data came to us? That's how the Simple API for XML (SAX) works, as you're going to see today. Today's topics are purposely the same as yesterday's, except today, you're going to do things the SAX way:

• Loading XML documents into a Java application
• Parsing XML documents by using Java
• Searching a document for a particular element
• Navigating through an XML document by using Java
• Creating graphical XML browsers by using Java
• Modifying the XML in a document by using Java

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