Acronym for Simple API for XML. An event-driven application program interface (API) used to interpret an XML file. SAX works with an XML parser, providing an interface between the parser and an XML application. SAX is used as an alternative to the more complex object-based Document Object Model (DOM) interface. See also DOM.
Simple API from XML

ETYM AS. seax a knife.
(Homonym: sacks).
A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore; SYN. saxophone.