Editing XML (section)

=== Simple API for XML ===
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[[Simple API for XML]] (SAX) is a [[Lexical analysis|lexical]], [[Event-driven programming|event-driven]] API in which a document is read serially and its contents are reported as [[callbacks]] to various [[Method (computer science)|methods]] on a [[Event handler|handler object]] of the user's design. SAX is fast and efficient to implement, but difficult to use for extracting information at random from the XML, since it tends to burden the application author with keeping track of what part of the document is being processed. It is better suited to situations in which certain types of information are always handled the same way, no matter where they occur in the document.