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[Joshua Allen] >> 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. >I quite agree: it is superior because of its better fit with programmer >insight. Files, pipes, database cursors behave in just this way: pull to read, >push to write. That pull-to-read, push-to-write thing is the whole idea behind the line-oriented, pipe friendly PYX notation (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/) Sean
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