SAX 1.0 Interface Examples

As described in the July 2002 issue of CPU - Computer Power User magazine.

• DemoSaxApp.java -- the main program for the SAX 1.0 example. After viewing this document, you can use the browser's 'save as' menu to save the program to your computer: you will probably want to change the filename to "DemoSaxApp.java"
• MySAXHandler.java -- The event handlers that the preceding program attaches to the parser. After viewing this document, you can use the browser's 'save as' menu to save the program to your computer: you will probably want to change the filename to "MySAXHandler.java"
• Microstar XML Parser -- This link takes you to Open Text's Web site -- Open Text bought Microstar a few years back, but still makes the Microstar XML parser -- know known as Aelfred -- freely available. A local copy is available here. The Aelfred ZIP file contains many informative SAX 1.0 examples.
• The SAX driver interface -- This link returns a ZIP file containing the interface code for the Java language SAX 1.0 interface. This is the interface used by Aelfred, so you'll need this too if your Java package does not already support SAX.
  

Note SAX Version 1 does not support XML name spaces -- this feature was added in SAX Version 2. SAX 2 also introduced some other important changes to the SAX interface. The SAX 2 interface can be downloaded from http://www.saxproject.org. A list of differences between SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0 is found at: http://www.saxproject.org/?selected=sax2.

The preceding example was taken from my book, The XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook