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Re: Pushing SAX events out onto the Web?

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Pushing SAX events out onto the Web?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:30:06 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3D5A556B.DBF4A894@m...>

Roger Costello wrote:
> > Why not just stream the XML?
> 
> What's the difference between streaming SAX events versus "streaming
> the XML"?  /Roger

I'm not sure what context you're doing this in, but it seems like
granularity and transparency are the two big issues.  Making every SAX
event into a tiny binary transmission (over RMI, CORBA, etc.) has some
problems.

Sending individual SAX events seems to require a lot of overhead in
sending small chunks of varied information.  Sending larger pieces
(something MOE, which I mentioned yesterday, is designed to support)
seems to make more sense in most network-transmission scenarios.

On the transparency, sending XML, even XML fragments, seems easier to
deal with than most message formats, though you could preserve the
transparency by using an XML-based message format.  Even XML-RPC for
SAX2 seems like a lot, though.

Or maybe you were planning on transmitting "SAX events" using pieces of
XML?  The start tag for startElement() maybe?  There are lots of
different possibilities.
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Simon St.Laurent
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