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I am attempting to read a large XML document and I wanted to do it in chunks vs XmlDocument‘s way of reading the entire file into memory. I know I can use XmlTextReader to do this but I was wondering if anyone has used SAX for .NET? I know Java developers swear by it and I was wondering if it is worth giving it a try and if so what are the benefits in using it. I am looking for specifics.
If you’re talking about SAX for .NET, the project doesn’t appear to be maintained. The last release was more than 2 years ago. Maybe they got it perfect on the last release, but I wouldn’t bet on it. The author, Karl Waclawek, seems to have disappeared off the net.
As for SAX under Java? You bet, it’s great. Unfortunately, SAX was never developed as a standard, so all of the non-Java ports have been adapting a Java API for their own needs. While DOM is a pretty lousy API, it has the advantage of having been designed for multiple languages and environments, so it’s easy to implement in Java, C#, JavaScript, C, et al.