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Re: XML-aware programming language?

• To: Burak Emir <Burak.Emir@e...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:45:31 -0500
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Burak Emir wrote:


> Aha, event-based and in which order are the events called?


In most cases (not all) beginning to end, start-to-finish, where start 
and end are defined by the first and last characters of the XML 
document. The tree-nature is *not* exposed. Indeed people have done some 
weird things with SAX, that do not properly map startElement to 
endElement. I don't much like that, because I like to assume that 
everything is indeed properly nested, but not everyone agrees with me, 
and people can and do use SAX in ways that actively contradict any 
tree-view, not merely that ignore it.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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• References:
  • Re: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: Web Services/SOA)
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
  • XML-aware programming language? - was Re: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations
    • From: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
  • Re: XML-aware programming language?
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
  • Re: XML-aware programming language?
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