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>Hmm ... it sound like what you're looking for is a common API, not a >common markup language. There's no reason that someone couldn't write >a SAX driver that took True enough except there is a genuine problem of using XML to encode data with no obvious root element. For example, log data tends to just accumulate and one has to use XML hacks to make the data meet the root element constraint. Best one can do is use the data as well-formed external parsed entity. I am not really obsessed about this but it is somewhat annoying. As far as APIs are concerned, I feel that APIs should pay more attention to XML fragments handling. Some parsers will parse only XML documents. Even SAX API's startDocument/endDocument tend to make people think in terms of XML documents rather than arbituary XML fragments. Many people write SAX filters that expects startDocument/startElement/.../endElement/endDocument sequence when there is no real reason to. I, for one, had some filters that initialized on startDocument or first startElement which leaves the filter in odd state when XML fragments are being parsed. I am not really criticizing anyone here since I forgot to bring this up when we were designing SAX (that reminds me, when will the work on SAX 2 stuff be resumed?). Lets just think about XML fragments more when designing APIs from now on. Best, Don Park - mailto:donpark@d... Docuverse - http://www.docuverse.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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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