About the PIA's SAX Utilities

This is NOT the SAX interface!

The actual interfaces that constitute the SAX API are located in org.xml.sax.

The DPS uses a set of interfaces that that are quite different from those of SAX, and are based on a different model of document processing. While SAX is primarily event-driven, a DPS ``document processor'' operates by using a cursor that allows the processor to traverse a document. This puts the processor in control of the traversal process, rather than the SAX parser or driver.

Nevertheless, the DPS does contain an interface, Output, that closely resembles the SAX DocumentHandler. An adapter class is present in this directory. Similarly, an adapter can make an Output or Processor implement a SAX DocumentHandler so that it can be driven by a SAX parser.


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