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Hi Bill, In a message dated 3/7/99 10:03:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, b.laforge@j... writes: > Well, that might depend on the job of the filter. You may want to use a > filter > to prune out the parts of the document you are not interested in BEFORE > the DOM is built. I agree with you. I was not saying that access to the DOM was the only way to write a filter. Just that filters can be based on walking a DOM Document tree as you state below. > > In general, I see several places where you might want to use a filter: > > o Transform events from a parser into something to be output. > > o Transform events from a parser before being accessed by an > application. > > o Between a parser and the DOM. > > o Transform events from a DOM walker into something to be output. > Best wishes, - Mike (mdaconta@a...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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