Re: [Sax-devel] Should I use sax?

[David M. <dav...@gm...>]

On 22/05/06, Michael Glavassevich <mrg...@ca...> wrote:

> If you're writing new code, I would avoid using Xerces' native
> serializers. They are non-standard, not particularly well maintained and
> likely to be deprecated [1] soon (perhaps in the next release). JAXP's
> TransformerHandler [2] is a much better choice for serializing SAX events=
.

Speaking of new code, I should mention that another option is to use
StAX instead of SAX. Like SAX, StAX is a streaming API, so in theory,
it should be as efficient as SAX (I haven't run side-by-side tests).
However, since StAX is a pull parser, it leaves you in control of the
central loop instead of having to write event handlers.  Here's an
intro:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/09/17/stax.html

StAX also covers writing.  Does anyone know how stable and efficient
current StAX implementations are?


All the best,


David

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