Hi folks.
Asking for advice.
I am now diving into learning and documenting Monty's SAX stuff.
I have never coded a SAX (I played Tuba in band, though)
Should I focus on SAX or SAX2?
The XML-Parser SaxHandler has a massive class comment that I could start with...
However, it has a subclass SAX2Parser with an interesting comment:
This class is a parser with an API like SAX 2.0, with separate SAX2ContentHandler, SAX2LexicalHandler, and SAX2DeclarationHandler classes that are subclassed unlike SAX 1.0 where a single, unified handler class is subclassed directly. Parsers can be created with #on: or other instance creation messages, and instances of the content, lexical, and declaration handlers can be injected before parsing with #contentHandler:, #lexicalHandler:, and #declarationHandler:, like this:
(SAX2Parser on: xmlStringOrStream)
contentHandler: MyContentHandlerClass new;
declarationHandler: MyDeclarationHandlerClass new;
lexicalHandler: MyLexicalHandlerClass new;
parseDocument.
Each handler can access the SAX2Parser object with #parser and set the parsing result returned by #parseDocument with #parsingResult:.
SAXHandler is not deprecated and can still be used if you prefer the SAX 1.0 style API.
I am thinking I should start with SAX2 study.
Do? Don't? Run Away?
thanks for your time.
t
