SAX2

Customer Reviews

SAX2 Review
2002-08-18 01:06:31 RP
GOOD Book

I am quite new to XML, its only since past 5 months I have been working on XML using Java & Oracle. This book just deals with SAX,SAX & SAX, & hence I find it quite different from other books on XML which deal with almost every thing related to XML and therefore don't deal any topic in detail. A title like 'Just SAX2' would be more appropriate.

SAX2 Review
2002-02-15 09:12:55 Gordon Anderson


This book is Superb!

Its a concise introduction which assumes you can think, have programmed before and are in a hurry. Dont avoid this book if you have only used say C/C++, not java - its still mostly applicable, and easy to read the Java samples anyway.

It raises some great ideas that you may have been on the verge of discovering yourself - or have even implemented your own way, less nicely - such as pipelining.

The author has obviously used all the parsers out there, and mentions the odd bug that could save you a lot of hairpulling. It would seem the author has a preference for gnu tools and an aversion for the complexity of the DOM model - which I would value after working thru the book.

The only detractor is the presence of a few typos - he covers the important stuff and there is _no_ crud.

[ps. Ive been developing for 10 years, and am using xml pipelining and SAX2 to do a port of a bank intranet site, which I previously wrote in C]

Media Reviews

"A clear and thorough description of SAX and abundant code samples."
--James Hoopes, E-Pro Magazine, January 2003

"If you do now, or plan to do, any serious work with streaming XML documents or messages, this book is well worth its low entry price. All around this is a typical O'Reilly book. The craftsmanship, writing, and editing are of good quality, the topic is well explored, and the errors, if present, are undetectable. The material is well articulated, covers the ground it needs to cover and tends to be well focused...these pages contain no fluff."
--Claude Duguay, JavaPro, June 2002