SAX
Short for Simple API for XML, an event-based API that, as an alternative to DOM, allows someone to access the contents of an XML document. SAX was originally a Java-only API. The current version supports several programming language environments other then Java.
SAX was developed by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list.
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