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At 01:07 PM 3/3/00 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >4. The DOM is everywhere, of course, but people seem to like > to gripe a lot about it, mainly about the memory usage -- to be > fair to the WG, that would be a problem with any tree-based API. > The irony is that everyone loves XSLT (see previous point), which > pretty-much requires a tree behind it, DOM or otherwise. > >5. People don't rag on SAX enough -- it has at least as many flaws as > the DOM, but it's protected by a kind of hacker cool (just as > presenters blame Windows when their slides don't work, but rarely do > the same with Linux). I think Paul Prescod's EasySAX Python package represents a large change in this discussion - there was both SAX and DOM bashing in his XTech presentaiton but the end result was an approach that combines the two. I think EasySAX may be the start of something new, and it might well be worth creating a Java-ized version of it. (If only I had the time.) It doesn't look like Paul's slides (or EasySAX) are up at his site yet, but I wrote a brief XML.com article on it: http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/02/xtech/relax.html The same article covers RELAX, which I think may represent an important turning point in the schema discussion. It uses XML Schema datatypes, but has its own vocabulary for structures - a much simpler one, though with some features unavailable in XML Schemas. Well worth a look. There were some amazing presentations there. Yes, there was some marketing creeping in, but there was plenty of good food for thought as well. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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