How to parse xml using SAX Parser??

priyatowin · September 7th, 2006, 11:59 PM

Currently i am using xmldom parser to parse xml document..
As the xml document contains more than 3000 records, it takes quite long time to load the data in the web page..

So can anyone help me how to use SAX parser to load xml data???

mhkay · September 8th, 2006, 02:53 AM

Are you doing the parsing within a browser, loading the XML from a server? In that case, I don't think SAX is a reasonable option. You need to reduce the size of the data you are downloading, doing more of the work on the server.

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joefawcett · September 8th, 2006, 02:56 AM

What server-side language are you using? If one of the .NET ones then I would use XmlReader rather than SAX as, in my opinion, it's easier to work with.
If you can't do that then you will need to find a suitable SAX implementation and read up on the different events fired by the processor and how to handle them.
Having said all that 3000 records does not seem like a lot but obviously they could be of any size. How large is the XML file?

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)