Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Programming Interfaces

Simple API for XML (SAX): SAX-Reader and SAX-Attributes

This chapter assumes that the reader is an experienced Progress developer who understands XML, SAX, and the basic OpenEdge development tools appropriate for developing OpenEdge and WebSpeed applications.

For more information on prerequisite topics:

For XML, see the XML 1.0 specification, available at http://www.w3.org.
For SAX, see the SAX 2.0 specification, available at http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc.
For OpenEdge tools, see OpenEdge Getting Started: OpenEdge Reference Architecture and OpenEdge Development: Progress 4GL Handbook .
For WebSpeed, see OpenEdge Getting Started: WebSpeed Essentials .

For information on writing XML documents with the SAX-writer object, see Chapter 21, " Simple API for XML (SAX): SAX-writer."

This chapter describes how to use the Simple API for XML, commonly known as SAX, with the Progress 4GL. This chapter covers SAX basics and reading XML documents, as described in the followings sections:

Understanding Progress SAX
Developing Progress SAX applications
SAX API reference