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• To: Alex Milowski <alexml@m...>
• Subject: Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (Open Source)
• From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:22:19 -0400
• Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>, Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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* Alex Milowski <alexml@m...> [2005-04-12 16:48]:
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> >Alex Milowski wrote:
> >
> >>In smallx you stream info items--not SAX.  As such, when you receive
> >>a start tag you get the name, attributes, and in-scope namespaces.
> >>In SAX, those are separate callbacks and implementing against that
> >>is much harder.
> >
> >That's blatantly incorrect. Names and attributes are not separate 
> >callbacks in SAX. They are passed as arguments to startElement. 
> >In-scope namespaces do require separate callbacks, but that's rarely 
> >needed.
> 
> Yep.  I was thinking of the prefix mappings (startPrefixMapping & 
> endPrefixMapping).
> ...typing to fast without thinking.
> 
> In-scope namespaces are needed for many applications--including XSLT.  
> I also embed
> QName values in many of my applications and there I also need in-scope 
> namespaces to
> resolve those QName values.
> 
> I still find SAX hard to implement against in terms of "XML >
> Components".  It is OK for a parser interface.  That's my personal
> preference though...

    In my SAX library, XStrategy, I combined namespaces and events.

    The XStrategy framwork maintains a stack of namespaces in scope
    by default. It seemed impossible to get anything done without it.

--
Alan Gutierrez - alan@e...
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  • Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (OpenSource)
    • From: Erik Bruchez <erik@b...>
  • Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (Open Source)
    • From: Alex Milowski <alexml@m...>
  • Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (OpenSource)
    • From: Erik Bruchez <erik@b...>
  • Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (Open Source)
    • From: Alex Milowski <alexml@m...>
  • Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (OpenSource)
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  • Re: [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (Open Source)
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