Re: XSLT or DOM or SAX?

Thanks for your response. I'm currently tasked w/figuring out how to break
large WML decks into smaller, device friendly decks. I was having a hard
time w/it in XSLT and.wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Craig

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Halsted" <halstedd@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Re:  XSLT or DOM or SAX?


> Yes, in general XSLT makes things easy that are more difficult in DOM or
SAX
> (or at least take more code), but at a performance cost.  SAX is great,
> though, if you are concerned about performance in handling large
documents.
> For what it matters, I tend to use XSLT when I know that the XML involved
> will be small because it makes things so easy, DOM when I need persistent
> structures (and have some sense for the size of the files involved), and
SAX
> when I'm running through files that may be large, like XML-ized versions
of
> data from large databases.  If you are looking for functionality you can't
> find in XSLT, you have the option of extending it.
>
> Dave Halsted
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re:  XSLT or DOM or SAX?
>
>
> > At 07:50 3/01/2001, Craig Pfeifer wrote:
> >
> > >I wanted to know how you knew if/when you have reached the limits of
> XSLT,
> > >and it's time to look at a DOM / SAX solution? What sorts of
> > >transformations are too difficult/awkward to accomplish in XSLT and are
> > >better left to DOM / SAX implementations?
> >
> > DOM/SAX seems a pretty low-level alternative
> > to XSLT.
> >
> > You might want to have a look at Omnimark
> > instead for more complex transformations.
> >
> > J
> >
> > -------------------------
> > James Robertson
> > Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
> > SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy
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> >
> > http://www.steptwo.com.au/
> > jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
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