Generally, SAX is only there because you have massive documents to process, or very constrained resources. Of course, you're right to say SAX has a place, and I

Generally, SAX is only there because you have massive documents to process, or very constrained resources. Of course, you're right to say SAX has a place, and I did really oversimplify things. If you're using Ruby or Django though, and not processing large documents, I doubt switching to SAX would be a low-hanging fruit.