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> > They don't exist. SAX is a read-only API. It supports > > parsing of XML documents, but has no support whatsoever for creating > > new XML documents, modifying XML documents, or writing them onto > > streams. You can write code to do all this yourself. Just don't > > pretend that code is part of SAX. > > The SAX interfaces don't mandate "parsing of XML documents", although > the interfaces can be used for this common task, as well as others. Agreed. I would concede the point that SAX doesn't specify any serialization back to an XML document/file. But like Aaron said, that isn't a foregone conclusion. Apart from that many implementors do have a document serializer as part of the package. Sure these are SAX Extensions, but we saw the same thing in the DOM world for ages. The fact that serialization is not part of the API may be a good thing-- but I don't think that should classify it as ReadOnly as it can be used to produce events as well. Cheers, Jeff Rafter Defined Systems http://www.defined.net XML Development and Developer Web Hosting
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