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A typical SAX application uses three kinds of objects: readers,
handlers and input sources. ``Reader'' in this context is another term
for parser, ie. some piece of code that reads the bytes or characters
from the input source, and produces a sequence of events. The events
then get distributed to the handler objects, ie. the reader invokes a
method on the handler. A SAX application must therefore obtain a
handler object, create or open the input sources, create the handlers,
and connect these objects all together. As the final step, parsing is
invoked. During parsing
handlers and input sources. ``Reader'' in this context is another
term for parser, i.e.\ some piece of code that reads the bytes or
characters from the input source, and produces a sequence of events.
The events then get distributed to the handler objects, i.e.\ the
reader invokes a method on the handler. A SAX application must
therefore obtain a reader object, create or open the input sources,
create the handlers, and connect these objects all together. As the
final step of preparation, the reader is called to parse the input.
During parsing, methods on the handler objects are called based on
structural and syntactic events from the input data.
For these objects, only the interfaces are relevant; they are normally
not instantiated by the application itself. Since Python does not have
not instantiated by the application itself. Since Python does not have
an explicit notion of interface, they are formally introduced as
classes. The \class{InputSource}, \class{Locator},
\class{AttributesImpl}, and \class{XMLReader} interfaces are defined
in the module \refmodule{xml.sax.xmlreader}. The handler interfaces
are defined in \refmodule{xml.sax.handler}. For convenience,
\class{InputSource} (which is often instantiated directly) and the
handler classes are also available from \module{xml.sax}. These
classes are described below.
classes, but applications may use implementations which do not inherit
from the provided classes. The \class{InputSource}, \class{Locator},
\class{AttributesImpl}, \class{AttributesNSImpl}, and
\class{XMLReader} interfaces are defined in the module
\refmodule{xml.sax.xmlreader}. The handler interfaces are defined in
\refmodule{xml.sax.handler}. For convenience, \class{InputSource}
(which is often instantiated directly) and the handler classes are
also available from \module{xml.sax}. These interfaces are described
below.
In addition to these classes, \module{xml.sax} provides the following
exception classes.