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In message <s8hgiu480w.fsf@p...>, Toby Speight <tms@a...> writes >IMO, the application should be able to decide (preferably at compile >time) whether it is interested in comments etc. We want to enable the >creation of small, efficient applications as well as highly capable >ones; I suggest an approach of providing lots at the parser, but >providing filtering down to ESIS by default. Bear in mind that, no matter how much or how little the application is interested in, the parser has to chew its way sequentially through the whole darned XML document. In a way, the only efficiency issue is how much it "remembers" en route. And whether it can stop because it knows it has found the element, entity reference, or whatever, that the application told it to sniff out. Richard Light SGML and Museum Information Consultancy richard@l... 3 Midfields Walk Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8JA U.K. tel. (44) 1444 232067 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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