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Paul Miller <stele@f...> writes: > As I've written before I've been working on a callback-based streaming > XML parser that is sort of DOM-like, specifically for reading > application data from XML files where you know what the object hierarchy > is. This is probably similar to what I'm using: the parser's API is basically a tree traverser: it has methods like: toNextSibling toFirstChild toParent ... and a bunch of methods to examine the current node. Though it's DOM-like, you never actually have to build the whole tree. It does have the feature (some might call it a bug) that you're processing large chunks of the document before you know that it doesn't validate. Since I deal with human-written documents I consider it a feature, since it permits graceful error recovery. > What do people think? Spare the memory and provide a simpler (and > slightly less capable) solution or store the entire thing in memory and > use the nice stuff in expat and give more features? I believe there's a low-level module in expat that can handle the lexical part of the parsing but still be called in pull mode. Or you could use "full" expat if you have threads (i.e. run expat as a coroutine). But like you, I'd really like to see a traversal-oriented (pull) parser API to go along with the current event-oriented (push) ones. There are times when it's just the right thing to do. -- Stephen R. Savitzky <steve@r...> <http://rsv.ricoh.com/~steve/> Platform for Information Applications: <http://RiSource.org/PIA/> Chief Software Scientist, Ricoh Silicon Valley, Inc. Calif. Research Center voice: 650.496.5710 front desk: 650.496.5700 fax: 650.854.8740 home: <steve@t...> URL: http://theStarport.org/people/steve/ 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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