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At 14:13 06/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote: [...] > >Here are some additional examples: > >- most transformations >- producing a rendered version of an XML document (electronic or > paper) >- context-sensitive searching > >Your example, extracting data, itself covers a wide range of >applications: > >- database import/export >- online transactions >- configuration information >- meta-data exchange >- general client/server protocols > >Essentially, SAX should cover most general requirements (most >transformations occur as part of a processing chain, and do not need >saved comments, internal entity references, etc.). Those applications >that do need access to lexical information -- mainly authoring tools >and repositories -- will, of course, need to use a different or >extended API. I find this list very useful. I'd add to this that SAX should cover the functionality of the XML-related languages XLL and XSL. (Neither of these require reconstruction of the original documents - unless you want to *edit* the *.xsl and preserve comments, etc.). If - as has been suggested in some camps - namespaces and 'schemas' in XML become common, then there is an even greater potential use. [Of course these may be represented *internally* as trees, but (if I'm right) these can be built from the SAX interface (as JUMBO does/will_do) without requiring the full DOM model.] When XML fully takes off there will be a requirement for a lot of software to process the complex mixture of *.xml, XLL and *.xsl that will be received client-side, and I would have thought that SAX was exactly what most people want. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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