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.