From: Amanda Staab<amanda@nostarch.com> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: The Book of SAX, released by No Starch Press Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:36:41 -0800 For Immediate Release March 20th, 2002 For a review copy, cover art, or an interview with the authors, contact Amanda Staab at amanda@nostarch.com or 415-863-9900. NEW BOOK TEACHES HOW TO USE SAX TO BUILD HIGH PERFORMANCE XML APPLICATIONS San Francisco, CA--XML has become an industry standard for everything from transmitting invoices to drawing pictures. And while there are many different APIs for working with XML documents, the Simple API for XML (SAX) is the leader for event-driven XML processing. Used by open source projects like Apache and by corporate users like Sun, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, SAX provides users with an economical, high-performance interface to XML documents. "Under the covers of most 'higher-level' XML API's, you'll find SAX as the driving force," says W. Scott Means, co-author of THE BOOK OF SAX (No Starch Press, $39.95 US, http://www.nostarch.com/?sax). "SAX is one of the best kept secrets of XML." Popular, useful, and efficient, SAX still has little documentation for developers who need to write SAX applications. "We wrote this book to fill the gap in documentation and explain the benefits of SAX to the developer community," says Michael A. Bodie, co-author. The resulting book is a comprehensive tutorial and reference for SAX 2.0. Bodie and Means teach readers how to develop a fully functioning SAX application as well as a complete, non-validating XML 1.0 parser that implements the SAX 2.0 API. "The book is organized to progressively introduce the most commonly used features of SAX very early on," says Means. Numerous examples show readers how to use SAX to solve XML parsing problems that are almost impossible to address with tree-based technologies-including real-time parsing, very large documents, and high-performance applications. Bodie and Means teach readers how to: * Get a SAX 2.0 application up and running quickly * Parse large XML documents without draining a computer's resources * Handle errors, work with InputSources, and capture DTD information * Use the namespace facilities added to SAX 2.0 * Build an XML parser using support classes provided in the SAX 2.0 API * Migrate applications and parsers from SAX 1.0 to SAX 2.0 THE BOOK OF SAX is a complete tutorial and reference, written by experienced XML authors. The book also includes the Microsoft MSXML 3.0 API reference. ABOUT THE AUTHORS W. Scott Means has been a professional software developer since 1988 and was one of the original developers of OS/2 1.1 and Windows NT. He is the author of Strategic XML (Sams), co-author of XML in a Nutshell (O'Reilly), and is currently the CEO of Enterprise Web Machines (www.enterprisewebmachines.com). Michael A. Bodie has been a software developer for 15 years. A former member of the engineering staff of the Superconducting Super Collider, he has consulted for top Fortune 100 companies, including NCR, Motorola, Georgia-Pacific, and FleetBoston Financial. He is currently the Chief Architect for Enterprise Web Machines. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES * Look at the book's table of contents at http://www.nostarch.com/?sax_toc * For more information about SAX, see http://www.saxproject.org/ The Book of SAX: The Simple API for XML By W. Scott Means and Michael A. Bodie ISBN 1-886411-77-8, 432 pages, $29.95 ($44.95 Cdn) Publication Date: April 2002 800-420-7240 http://www.nostarch.com About No Starch Press Founded in 1994, No Starch Press, Inc. is an independent publishing company committed to producing readable, information-packed computer books that make a difference. We focus on Open Source, Web development, computer security, programming tools, and alternative operating systems. ### ____ To be removed from this list, reply with "Remove" in your message.