Sax2 (Paperback)

Preface

Chapter 1. The Simple API for XML
Types of XML APIs
Why Choose SAX?
Why Not to Choose SAX?
A Short History of SAX
Packages in the SAX2 API
Some Popular SAX2 Parser Distributions
Installing a SAX2 Parser
What XML Are We Talking About?

Chapter 2. Introducing SAX2
Producers and Consumers
Beginning SAX
Basic ContentHandler Events
Producer-Side Validation
Exception Handling
Namespaces and SAX2

Chapter 3. Producing SAX2 Events
Pull Mode Event Production with XMLReader
Bootstrapping an XMLReader
Configuring XMLReader Behavior
The EntityResolver Interface
Other Kinds of SAX2 Event Producers

Chapter 4. Consuming SAX2 Events
More About ContentHandler
The LexicalHandler Interface
Exposing DTD Information
Turning SAX Events into Data Structures
XML Pipelines

Chapter 5. Other SAX Classes
Helper Classes
SAX1 Support

Chapter 6. Putting It All Together
Rich Site Summary: RSS
XML and Messaging
Including Subdocuments

Appendix A. SAX2 API Summary
Appendix B. SAX2 and the XML Infoset

Index