SAX2 Developer's Guide

MSXML 5.0 SDK

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - SAX2 Developer's Guide

SAX2 Developer's Guide

This guide introduces the Microsoft COM implementation of SAX2, the latest version of the Simple API for XML. SAX2 is a publicly developed standard for event-based parsing of XML documents. This guide, along with the reference material that accompanies it, describes the Microsoft COM implementation of the SAX2 standard. The Microsoft SAX2 implementation provides both Microsoft® Visual Basic® and Microsoft Visual C++® interfaces.

The following topics provide more information about creating applications with SAX2.

Topic Description
Starter Kit This section explains the benefits of SAX2 and helps you choose between SAX2 and the XML Document Object Model (DOM). This section also offers ideas for building SAX2 applications.
Concepts This section introduces some of the fundamental concepts pertinent to events-based parsing.
How Do I? This section helps you build SAX2 applications. It provides tutorials for using events-based parsers with applications that range from simple searches to more complex chain filtering and atomic lookups.

See Also

SAX2 Reference | Using XSLT with SAX