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At 3:24 PM +0000 1/16/02, Al Snell wrote: >1) Writing CSV code is easier than XML code (no DOM or anything, just >something like SAX; I write the CSV parser myself in less code than it >takes to interface with an XML parser) > If DOM is too hard (and mostly I agree with you) use SAX or use JDOM. JDOM certainly is much simpler for the sorts of things you're doing. DOM != XML >2) Data corruption? XML parsers are *fragile*, CSV parsers can often cope >with erronious data in ways that XML parsers mustn't if they are to be >standards compliant! > That's a feature, not a bug. If the data is bad, I want to know about it ASAP and get it fixed at the source. Draconian error handling is a very good thing. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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