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Event oriented XML Parsing: SAX

SAX stands for Simple API for XML

Event oriented XML Parsing: SAX

SAX stands for Simple API for XML

 

SAX provides a mechanism for reading data from an XML document, SAX parsers operate on each piece of the XML document sequentially.

 

It is a kind of event oriented approach for parsing the xml document.

An XML tree is not viewed as a data structure, but as a stream of events generated by the

parser.

The kinds of events are:

 

the start of the document is encountered the end of the document is encountered the start tag of an element is encountered the end tag of an element is encountered

character data is encountered

 

a processing instruction is encountered

 

Scanning the XML file from start to end, each event invokes a corresponding callback method that the programmer writes.

 

1 SAX packages

 

javax.xml.parsers: Describing the main classes needed for parsing org.xml.sax: Describing few interfaces for parsing

 

2 SAX classes

 

SAXParser Defines the API that wraps an XMLReader implementation class SAXParserFactory Defines a factory API that enables applications to configure and

 

obtain a SAX based parser to parse XML documents

 

ContentHandler Receive notification of the logical content of a document. DTDHandler Receive notification of basic DTD-related events. EntityResolver Basic interface for resolving entities.

 

ErrorHandler Basic interface for SAX error handlers. DefaltHandler Default base class for SAX event handlers.

 

3 SAX parser methods

 

startDocument() and endDocument() – methods called at the start and end of an XML document.

 

startElement() and endElement() – methods called at the start and end of a document element.

 

characters() – method called with the text contents in between the start and end tags of an XML document element.

 

4 Understanding SAX Parser

 

At the very first, create an instance of the SAXParserFactory class which generates an instance of the parser. This parser wraps a SAXReader object. When the parser's parse() method is invoked, the reader invokes one of the several callback methods (implemented in the application). These callback methods are defined by the interfaces ContentHandler, ErrorHandler, DTDHandler, and EntityResolver.

 

5 SAX Example :Selecting XML data

Step 1. Create a XML file

 

Create a simple XML file as following <?xml version="1.0"?> <company>

 

<staff>

<firstname>Ram</firstname>

<salary>100000</salary>

</staff>

 

<staff>

<firstname>Kumar</firstname>

<salary>200000</salary>

</staff>

</company>

 

Transforming XML document

 

It is process of extracting one info. From one xml doc. and uses that info to create another xml doc.


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