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Re: Does SAX make sense?

• To: zhengyu <zhengyu@a...>
• Subject: Re: Does SAX make sense?
• From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@e...>
• Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:27:17 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Jimmy,

Another paper that you may find interesting is:

An Algorithm from Streaming XPath Processing with Forward and Backward 
Axes, www.cs.nyu.edu/~deepak/publications/icde.pdf.

Note that this technique has been applied to documents over 1 GB in size.

Patrick

zhengyu wrote:

>I have got a weird question in mind that I would like to toss it out.
>
>Suppose there is a way to offer DOM type interface with SAX kind of
>efficiency.
>How long would it take for the new processing model to become really
>popular?
>
>Jimmy
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
>To: <xml-dev@l...>
>Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 7:00 PM
>Subject: Re:  Does SAX make sense?
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>>>There are several implementations, but I don't know of any standard
>>>interface. I have been thinking that having a standard interface just
>>>for passing XPath expressions to an event parser would be great. Anyone
>>>know of a standard being worked, implementations, or interested in
>>>starting a working group? If so, I'm in.
>>>      
>>>
>>I am working on something similar, but much simpler right now.
>>My XPaths are just straight paths, or in other words,  element types.
>>
>>My initial plan was to build a DTD (or other schema) validator
>>(on top of SAX) which has callback hooks for custom validation
>>or processing. The callbacks are registered by the application
>>based on a path - but rather a path based on the schema object
>>model and not the document object model. Every node in the SOM
>>corresponds to a separate set of callbacks.
>>
>>So far I was not thinking of anything more complex, as I think
>>this would be quite an effort.
>>
>>Karl
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-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
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Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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