Chapter 22. org.xml.sax and Subpackages

This chapter documents the org.xml.sax package and its subpackages. org.xml.sax defines the Simplified API for XML, or SAX, a de facto standard for parsing XML documents. The org.xml.sax.ext package defines optional extensions to the SAX API, and the org.xml.sax.helpers package defines helper classes that are often useful with SAX.

These packages were added in Java 1.4 as "endorsed standards." This means that they are part of the Java platform, but are not defined by Sun, which is why they have the "org.xml" prefix.