Basic Standards
These are the basic standards you need to be familiar with. They come up in almost any discussion of XML.
SAX
The Simple API for XML was a product of collaboration on the XML-DEV mailing list rather than a product of the W3C. It's included here because it has the same “final” characteristics as a W3C recommendation.
You can think of SAX as a “serial access” protocol for XML that is ideal for stateless processing, where the handling of an element does not depend on any of the elements that came before. With a small memory footprint and fast execution speeds, this API is great for straight-through transformations of data into XML, or out of it. It is an event-driven protocol, because you register a handler with the parser that defines ...
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