APIs

DOM, So What?

• Standard generic object model and API for interacting with XML
• Convenient: makes entire XML dataset available
• Useful for generic processing of modest quantities of XML
• Too heavy-weight for efficient use with large amounts of XML
• In short: client-side technology, primarily

SAX, So What?

• Standard generic event-based API for processing XML data streams
• Useful for applications that do not need to or cannot keep entire document in memory at once
• Useful for applications that want to build their own tuned objects
• Suitable for high-performance server-side processing

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