- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press; illustrated edition edition (July 8 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1886411778
- ISBN-13: 978-1886411777
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 644 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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- #86 in Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > XML
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The Book of SAX includes everything XML and Java developers need to write SAX applications. Specific examples show how to use SAX to solve XML parsing problems that are impractical to address with tree-based technologies-including real-time parsing, very large documents, and high-performance applications. The authors guide readers through the development of picoSAX, a functioning SAX 2.0 XML parser.
About the Author
W. Scott Means has been a professional software developer since 1988 and was one of the original developers of OS/2 1.1 and Windows NT. He is currently CEO of Enterprise Web Machines. Michael A. Bodie has been a software developer for 15 years. He is currently Chief Architect for Enterprise Web Machines.
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In reality, SAX is nothing more than a set of Java and interface descriptions that document a system for writing event-driven XML applications. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
In reality, SAX is nothing more than a set of Java and interface descriptions that document a system for writing event-driven XML applications. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Intro into SAX,
By C. M. Lowry (Columbia JUG, Columbia, SC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book of Sax: The Simple API for XML (Paperback)
This book takes a single aspect of xml technology, SAX, and gives it a rather comprehensive coverage. The first portion of the book is a tutorial on Java programming for SAX. It helps the reader to understand the conceptual differences between processing xml using SAX as opposed to the DOM. A small application is developed in an iterative fashion to illustrate the programming issues with SAX. Some guidelines are given along the way to direct the reader in developing robust code. The examples are based in SAX 2.0. A chapter is devoted converting SAX 1.0 applications to SAX 2.0 Chapters 10 and 11 are devoted to the SAX 2.0 and SAX 1.0 APIs respectively. In these references, a real convenience is that the class names are printed on the page edge to form a thumb index. Each class or interface has a brief description of its use, the Visual Basic Equivalent, the Constructors, and Methods with coding examples and descriptions. Since xml is increasing in importance to Java programmers, this book can be a very useful tool. However, it would be helpful if the authors gave updated information on the book web site about using the examples with Xerces 2.0 and Java 1.4. Technology moves on.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Book of Sax: The Simple API for XML (Paperback)
As a Java developer just getting my feet wet with SAX, I find The Book of SAX to be quite helpful and understandable. While I am not exactly a novice, I found this book to be very readable, instructive, and to comment on some other reviews I saw, original. It is difficult to find any programming text that does not read like an translated VCR manual - however, in this case, SAX is presented fluidly and intelligently. Additionally, the sample code was practical and well-written. I was able to use many examples almost verbatim in completing one of my own projects. I highly recommend. And I just bought another copy for a friend.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Is it worth the money?,
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This review is from: The Book of Sax: The Simple API for XML (Paperback)
I (marginally) do not feel ripped off. The first 9 chapters (62 pages) offer an accurate and concise intro to SAX -- the 3-star rating is for these pages... content could be improved. The API reference material (pages 63-284) is nearly worthless as content. I wish authors would stop putting detailed API documentation on books like this. For a few bucks, it's not a bad buy.
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