about SAX

This is the official website

for SAX. It replaces David Megginson’s original SAX

page.

SAX is the Simple API for

XML, originally a Java-only API. SAX was the first widely

adopted API for XML in Java, and is a “de facto” standard. The

current version is SAX 2.0.1, and there are versions for several

programming language environments other than Java.

SAX has recently switched over

to the SourceForge project infrastructure. The intent is to

continue the open development and maintainence process for SAX (no

NDAs required) while making it easier to track open SAX issues

outside of the high-volume xml-dev list. Project

resources include archived mailing lists and a download area. See

the Project Page link for full information about project facilities

which are being used, as well as news announcements. Use the

sax-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list to discuss

problems that come up when you’re trying to use SAX.

David Megginson, who runs an

XML consulting company, has resumed maintaining SAX after a period

of excellent work by David Brownell (if you use SAX, you should

think about buying David Brownell’s SAX2 book).

27-April 2004: SAX

2.0.2 (sax2 r3) is out. Download it by going to the Sourceforge

download area. That download includes full source, pre-generated

javadoc, and a JAR file you can install.

29-January 2002: SAX

2.0.1 (sax2 r2) is out! Download it by going to the Sourceforge

download area. That download includes full source, pre-generated

javadoc, and a JAR file you can install. Or, consult the javadoc

link at left. That’s current, and includes the preliminary “SAX2

Extensions 1.1″ APIs.

12-November 2001:

There are some SAX2 conformance tests available, using the JUNIT

testing framework. Download the “sax2unit” tests at the xmlconf

project. These are in addition to the SAX2-hosted XML conformance

tests mentioned on the “links” page, and address different

issues.