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∟SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface
∟SAX Content Handler Interface
This section describes the SAX 1.0 and 2.0 standards. SAX defines 4 interfaces under the org.xml.sax package name: DocumentHandler, ErrorHandler, DTDHandler and EntityResolver.
Unlike DOM, there is no formal specification for SAX.
The original SAX Java implementation by the SAX Project is considered as the standard.
There are 2 major versions released by the SAX Project:
- SAX 1.0 - Released on May 12, 1998.
- SAX 2.0 - Released on May 5, 2000. In SAX 2.0, the structure and concepts remained largely the same,
although several key interfaces changed incompatibly.
The SAX API is defined in 4 interfaces under the org.xml.sax package:
- org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler -
This is the main interface of SAX.
It defines event handler methods (callback methods) that an application should implement to handle events
fired by the parser while it traverses the input XML files.
- org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler -
It defines error handler methods (callback methods) that an applications should implement to add special handling logics
when the parse encountered parsing errors.
- org.xml.sax.DTDHandler -
If an application needs to work with notations and unparsed (binary) entities,
it must implement this interface to receive notification of the NOTATION and ENTITY declarations.
- org.xml.sax.EntityResolver -
If an application needs to do redirection of URIs in documents (or other types of custom handling),
it must provide an implementation of this interface.
The main interface of SAX, org.xml.sax.ContentHandler defines the following event handler methods
to be implemented by applications:
- startDocument(): Called when parsing reaches the beginning of the XML document.
- endDocument(): Called when parsing reaches the end of the XML document.
- startElement(): Called when parsing reaches the beginning of an XML element.
- endElement(): Called when parsing reaches the end of an XML element.
- characters(): Called when parsing reaches the end of an character section.
- ignorableWhitespace(): Called when parsing reaches any ignorable white spaces between elements.
Of course, some of the event handlers will receive information parsed from the XML file as parameters. For example:
- startElement() passes all the attributes as an org.xml.sax.Attributes object.
- characters() passes all the characters of the parsed text as char[] object.
Table of Contents
About This Book
Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
XML File Syntax
XML File Browsers
XML-JSON Document Conversion
DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface
►SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface
What Is SAX (Simple API for XML)
Using SAX Implementation in JDK
►SAX Content Handler Interface
SAXBrowser.java - SAX Interface Java Example
SAX Parsing Pattern Example
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 XML Documents Against Specified XML Schemas
XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction
Java Implementation of XSLT
XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction
XPath (XML Path) Language
XSLT Elements as Programming Statements
Control and Generate XML Element in the Result
PHP Extensions for XML Manipulation
Processing XML with Python Scripts
XML Notepad - XML Editor
XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++
XML Plugin Packages for Atom Editor
XML 1.1 Changes and Parsing Examples
Archived Tutorials
References
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