creating xml using sax

[deep rai]

hi,

i would like to know how to create xml file using sax.

Thank you

[Ulf Dittmer]

SAX is an API for parsing XML, not for creating it. The DOM API would be better suited. See this on how to create a XML through a DOM Document object.

[William Brogden]

Welllll thats not exactly true.

It is not commonly done but you can create a document by creating a sequence of SAX events being fed to an event handler that simply writes them to output.

Harold's chapter 8 on SAX processing gets into this to some extent.

Manipulating SAX events is the basis for "pipeline" processing of XML documents. I cite several toolkits in this survey article.

Note that the SAX approach takes MUCH less memory and CPU time than the DOM approach.

Bill
[ April 22, 2008: Message edited by: William Brogden ]

[deep rai]

thankz ulf and william... just in case someone needs this in future i have attached a great linkkk below which has everything

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/embedding.html#ExampleXML2PDF

[Ulf Dittmer]

That page talks about creating PDFs from an XML source. How does that help with creating XML?

[deep rai]

It has few examples, and in one of them it is creating xml from java objects calling sax events on the java object. its example ExampleObj2XML.java

[Ulf Dittmer]

Got it - you meant to link to the example below the one you actually linked to.