Parsers as Objects
Essentially, there are two ways a parser will be used in an application:
To see whether an XML document is well-formed
As part of a processor
If the second one is the case (and it will be most of the time), the parser can be treated as an object. With Java-based parsers, this means that the parser will be incorporated as a class in the Java application. With C-based parsers, either the source code can be incorporated natively and the arrays and other variables accessed directly, or the parser can be treated as a class with its own methods and properties.
Another method that can be used with Windows applications is to compile the parser as a DLL and use it as a common object model. In fact, all the C parsers in Chapter 14, "Parsing ...
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