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3/5/01 12:37:11 PM, Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@c...> wrote: >> > 5) Work on DOM trees as well as with a SAX parser (DOM tree query support is >> > essential in my opinion.. SAX alone is no good. What if your dom tree comes >> > out of a database?) >> requires a well-formedness parse as the first step in processing at each layer, >> and a stream of SAX events is the simplest, lightest, and most neutral >> expression of that parse. In fact, as a matter of local process optimization >> those SAX events themselves may be routed through layered filters without much > >To be honest, I'm a bit confused. Could you elaborate how this would >help anyone who doesn't actually have the DOM tree represented as an XML >file but gets it out of some data source ? I haven't been following the >abstraction debate that much.. It's always possible to traverse a DOM and generate SAX events from it (though it may not be possible to generate the sort of events a LexicalHandler is expecting).
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