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I'm done with the can there be an arbitrary-execution-order-SAX aspect of this thread, but as usual Megginson does stir up some off-shoot thoughts of interest... On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 18:44 -0500, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > The characters event is interesting, becuase it is an index into > the parse buffer (in theory, and on Xerces indeed), but a > characters evet is only ever at the top of the stack. I only > ever need one. Interestingly enough, this is precisely one of the aspects of Python/SAX that is incompatible to Java (as I intimated earlier). in Python/SAX, we decided to go with the (in our opinions) much less tangled approach of making the parameter from characters events an actual text object, rather than a set of offsets. I know the original SAX idea was optimization, but I do think this is exactly one of those areas where perhaps (IMO) premature optimization ends up limiting design evolution, and I also think that it interferes with the "Simple" part. Not a problem in Python/SAX. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/ The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html
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