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Michael.Kay@i... wrote: > > From: Oren Ben-Kiki [mailto:oren@c...] > > > > I raised the question of a standard API to XSL processors in > > the XSL mailing > > list. This question has quickly touched on general issues of > > how to combine > > XML processing modules, since there are two incompatible ways > > to pass XML > > data - as an in-memory DOM tree or as "parsing" events. > > > > SAXON (http://home.iclweb.com/icl2/mhkay/saxon.html) provides a higher-level > API that can be used to process XML documents on top of either SAX or DOM. > It provides a useful model where most of your processing is sequential but > you might occasionally (or in the future) want to navigate from a node that > you reached serially, e.g. to follow an IDREF. > > I've recently been trying to implement an XSL subset using SAXON and have > realised that the XSL processing model requires the document to be built in > memory, even though 90% of useful applications don't. For an XSL API, > therefore, I think you can forget any idea of an event-based approach. > > Mike Kay That has not been my experience. I have not had any problem with spitting out processed XSL Output to SAX events. Things could change, but for now I have not found any reason why you can't use DocumentHandler as an interface for delegating processing of XSL output. Tyler 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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