Author Archives: David Megginson

Dare Obasanjo recently posted a message to the xml-dev mailing list as part of the ancient and venerable binary XML permathread (just a bit down the list from attributes vs. elements, DOM vs. SAX, and why use CDATA?). His message … Continue reading →

Late yesterday I was working on a mind-numbingly simple XML data library in Java for use with a larger project. I spent about an hour on the first iteration, which could read and write through an event-interface and/or into a … Continue reading →

I just stumbled on this posting, and was happy to see that the Perl version of my XML writer (a library for creating XML) has found a good home. I originally wrote the XML writer in both Java and Perl … Continue reading →

Recently, I mentioned my biggest regrets about SAX. When we were building SAX, however, there were an awful lot of things that went right. Here are the three things that I’m happiest about: SAX was useful right from the start … Continue reading →

It’s seven years ago this January that I put out the first prerelease of SAX for consideration by the xml-dev mailing list. The final SAX releases contain the wisdom of a lot of people, but in the end, I had … Continue reading →