SAX (Simple API for XML) is a serial access parser API for XML. SAX provides a mechanism for reading data from an XML document.

Package Specification

A parser which implements SAX (ie, a SAX Parser) functions as a stream parser, with an event-driven API.
//	encode
EXIResult saxResult = new EXIResult( ... );
XMLReader parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
parser.setContentHandler( saxResult.getHandler() );
parser.parse( ... );

//	decode
EXISource saxSource = new EXISource();
XMLReader xmlReader = saxSource.getXMLReader();
xmlReader.setContentHandler ( ... );
InputSource is =  new InputSource( ... );
xmlReader.parse ( is );

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