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NAME
    XML::LibXML::SAX - XML::LibXML direct SAX parser

DESCRIPTION
    XML::LibXML provides an interface to libxml2 direct SAX interface. Through this interface it is
    possible to generate SAX events directly while parsing a document. While using the SAX parser
    XML::LibXML will not create a DOM Document tree.

    Such an interface is useful if very large XML documents have to be processed and no DOM
    functions are required. By using this interface it is possible to read data stored within an XML
    document directly into the application data structures without loading the document into memory.

    The SAX interface of XML::LibXML is based on the famous XML::SAX interface. It uses the generic
    interface as provided by XML::SAX::Base.

    Additionally to the generic functions, which are only able to process entire documents,
    XML::LibXML::SAX provides *parse_chunk()*. This method generates SAX events from well balanced
    data such as is often provided by databases.

FEATURES
    *NOTE:* This feature is experimental.

    You can enable character data joining which may yield a significant speed boost in your XML
    processing in lower markup ratio situations by enabling the
    http://xmlns.perl.org/sax/join-character-data feature of this parser. This is done via the
    set_feature method like this:

      $p->set_feature('http://xmlns.perl.org/sax/join-character-data', 1);

    You can also specify a 0 to disable. The default is to have this feature disabled.

AUTHORS
    Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas

VERSION
    2.0134

COPYRIGHT
    2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.

    2002-2006, Christian Glahn.

    2006-2009, Petr Pajas.

LICENSE
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself.