Re: SAX is not a read-only API (wa RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17...)

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2002-09-12T17:57:34Z
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Re: SAX is not a read-only API (wa RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17...)
At 11:50 AM -0600 9/12/02, Aaron Skonnard wrote:


>>  Where are the SAX calls to create a new XML document?
>
>ch.startDocument();
>// document content goes here...
>Ch.endDocument();

This is interesting, but you still need a class that implements the 
ContentHandler that is not part of SAX. You cannot write an XML 
document without adding your own non-standard, XML classes.

>The SAX interfaces don't mandate "parsing of XML documents", although
>the interfaces can be used for this common task, as well as others.
>

Au contraire, the XMLReader interface mandates exactly this:

public void parse(java.lang.String systemId)
            throws java.io.IOException,
                   SAXException

Parse an XML document from a system identifier (URI).
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