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• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:57:15 -0400

Ingo Macherius writes:

 > > The problem comes if the parser tries to build a tree rather than
 > > simply reporting an event stream.
 > 
 > How many real world applications will be happy with just the event 
 > stream ? XSL-visualization always needs two trees, the parser tree 
 > and the resulting Formatting Object Tree (FOT). Double impact ! XML-
 > querys/DOM need to build a transformed versions. Triple impact !

Yes, but often the trees can be built and discarded at a fairly low
level.  For example, if I have a serialised database table like

  <table>
   <entry>
    <name>David Megginson</name>
    <email>david@m...</email>
   </entry>
   <entry>
    <name>Ingo Macherius</name>
    <email>macherius@d...</email>
   </entry>
   <!-- etc., 2,500,000 times -->
  </table>

I do not need to build a tree for the whole document; instead, I can
cache the information for each entry (or each n entries, for
efficiency), dump it into my SQL database (or whatever), then move on
to the next set.

The second situation is where you are using XML to serialise a data
model that is already well-defined (as for vector graphics).  In this
case, it makes more sense to build the specialised object tree
directly from the event stream rather than building a DOM tree only to
tear it down.  Specialised object trees can be considerably smaller
than a corresponding DOM tree, depending on the format.


All the best,


David

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