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Gabe Beged-Dov writes: > SAX is described as an event-based API. IMO, it is a callback based > API. Iam guessing that many will find this either a debateable > distinction or one not worth dwelling on. I feel it is worth > distinguishing. This is separate from the issue of whether it is > worthwhile to either replace the callback API with an event API, or > layer an event API on top of the callback API. Event-based programming existed before people started encapsulating events in structures or objects. I'd define SAX as an event-based API that reports events using callbacks. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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