Re: Feeding DOMs to XSLT Processors

Jon,

Both Michael Kay and yourself recommended this approach (transform the
incoming data into SAX Events instead of DOM).  I was hoping you could
give me your input on the situation described below.

We're getting data from the mainframe in the form of a big, long
string.  The field offsets are determined by a COBOL copybook.  We
pre-process the copybook into a DOM.  At runtime, we use the copybook
DOM to parse the mainframe data string into another DOM and then pass
this DOM to the XSLT processor.

Would the following be feasible -- Pre-process the copybook into a SAX
InputSource instead of a DOM, at runtime, use the copybook SAX events
to parse the mainframe data string into a separate set of SAX events,
and then pass these events to the XSLT processor?

I don't have much knowledge regarding SAX and am simply looking for a
high level "yes" or "no", but would welcome any further explanation. 
Thanks.


Mike...

> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:57:14 -0500
> From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Feeding DOMs to XSLT Processors
> 
> I have found it more efficient to transform the incoming data into
SAX
> Events instead of DOM. The SAX events approach works with all of the
> XSL
> implementation.

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