stéphane ducasse wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to understand how to use Yaxo and I cannot figure out what is the difference between the SAXDriver and SAXHandler. Of course there is no comment, no reference to the class SAXHandler.... Does anybody has an example?
Stef
PS: this is not a fatality, this is a state of mind!
Stef,
SAX is an event drive API for processing XML documents. While java-based it is relatively standard across languages. There are several Java resources but here's one which helped me:
Most implementations of SAX (including the one included with the "full" 3.7 image) are mostly "2.0" compliant which seems to me including XML namespaces (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) so the sample code on these pages which specifically deals with namespaces also transfers well to Smalltalk. As for Smalltalk examples, well, look at the subclasses of SAXHandler...one of these uses SAX to build the somewhat standard DOM tree. So, one has two choices when dealing with XML: event drive with SAX (usually, but not always, building the tree yourself) or DOM where the XML tree gets build from generic components (XMLElements).
Sorry if this is not specific enough...I'm sure others will chime in with concrete examples but I think knowing SAX, per se, is as important as knowing the Smalltalk implementation since it ensures that the two don't get too far apart.
David