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Joshua Allen wrote: > We made heavy investments in the “pull model” of parsing as an > alternative to event-based parsing ala SAX. It is possible to do “pull > until match” and raise events to get the same effect as SAX, but we felt > that the pull model was more approachable for the average developer. Yep, I suspect that .Net learned from experience and got this one right and pull parsing is the way to go in the future. The first 3 XML parsers (Lark, NXP, and expat) all were event-driven because... er well that was 1996, can't exactly remember, seemed like a good idea at the time. -Tim
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