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The next stage of this seems to be people who don't like or can't understand XSLT, so they use it in a SAX-like way and call script functions for everything else. I'm curious about this subject because I keep seeing people who learn just the barebones, get to DOM, then use it for everything. One of our folks, a smart lady, started doing some tests to check resources and memory usage and concluded that for her app, the DOM was of no value at all. I asked her if she had looked at SAX and she didn't know what it was. She was at least asking good questions. What we are finding elsewhere is that they don't bother with that. They run to code and reinvent everything. So, I am wondering if others are seeing the same behavior. Is XML just that hard to learn, too obscure, too different, or is this just ossification brought on by years of copying code and not looking beneath? len From: Al Snell [mailto:alaric@a...] On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > How often do you as experienced XML developers > find people in your shop using DOM for work > more appropriate to SAX? Have you asked > them why and what do they say? What are the > costs of picking the wrong API? Even worse, one I've seen in processing pipelines is converting to textual XML (as a big in-memory string) then passing it into the next stage to be reparsed!
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