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XML::LibXML::SAX(3)                  User Contributed Perl Documentation                 XML::LibXML::SAX(3)



NAME
       XML::LibXML::SAX - XML::LibXML direct SAX parser

DESCRIPTION
       XML::LibXML provides an interface to libxml2 direct SAX interface. Through this interface it is
       possible to generate SAX events directly while parsing a document. While using the SAX parser
       XML::LibXML will not create a DOM Document tree.

       Such an interface is useful if very large XML documents have to be processed and no DOM functions are
       required. By using this interface it is possible to read data stored within a XML document directly
       into the application datastructures without loading the document into memory.

       The SAX interface of XML::LibXML is based on the famous XML::SAX interface. It uses the generic
       interface as provided by XML::SAX::Base.

       Additionally to the generic functions, which are only able to process entire documents,
       XML::LibXML::SAX provides parse_chunk(). This method generates SAX events from well ballanced data
       such as is often provided by databases.

       NOTE: At the moment XML::LibXML provides only an incomplete interface to libxml2's native SAX
       implementaion. The current implementation is not tested in production environment. It may causes
       significant memory problems or shows wrong behaviour. If you run into specific problems using this
       part of XML::LibXML, let me know.

AUTHORS
       Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas,

VERSION
       1.60

COPYRIGHT
       2001-2006, AxKit.com Ltd; 2002-2006 Christian Glahn; 2006 Petr Pajas, All rights reserved.



perl v5.8.8                                      2006-08-26                              XML::LibXML::SAX(3)