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Re: Sun XML early access

  • From: David Brownell <db@E...>
  • To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:20:20 -0700

xml bean
Don Park wrote:
> 
> I have looked at the DOM implementation only and found that:
> 
> 1. sibling-based navigation is considerablly slower than index-based
> navigation.

This issue was listed in the release notes; as Don noted, easily
fixed. 


> 2. getElementsByTagName is not efficient.

Or rather, actually _using_ the result can cost.  "Liveness" for
this stuff wasn't universally liked, since the indices are not
stable.  (Two calls to item[i] can return different values.)
This is another case of an optimization that could be kicked in
sometime if it matters.  There is a fast alternative available.


> 3. Output needs more design work.
> 
> One needs to subclass to override output and there is no built in support
> for conversion to other formats.  For example, you can not write out a DOM
> Document as HTML without some serious patching or overriding.

Actually, it's easy to write out a DOM document as HTML if you
have a bean to address the different handling of EMPTY tags (for
the "HR", "BR", etc) in HTML.  We've had plenty of cause to do
so ... ;-)

There's nothing preventing writing out in any format whatever,
though the write(Writer) method on all nodes could clearly be
renamed to be more suggestive of writing XML !!


> 4. XML Bean concept is a little disappointing for what it does.
> 
> I am afraid I can not go into details about this due to Docuverse's own work
> in this area but Sun needs to broaden their view of what a bean is.

Sun has some very broad notions of what beans are; we did coin
the term, and do have ongoing work in that area!  THIS kind of
bean was only there to address a common solution to a common
problem.  As other discussion has noted, there are quite a few
ways to use Beans with XML.  We're open to suggestions.

- Dave

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