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Re: DOM or SAX: Sense and Sensibility

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: DOM or SAX: Sense and Sensibility
• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:21:43 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E43069D2453@HQ5>

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> How often do you as experienced XML developers
> find people in your shop using DOM for work
> more appropriate to SAX?   Have you asked
> them why and what do they say?  What are the
> costs of picking the wrong API?

Even worse, one I've seen in processing pipelines is converting to textual
XML (as a big in-memory string) then passing it into the next stage to be
reparsed!

>
> len
>

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