• From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• To: Simon Wilson <Simon.Wilson@c...>
• Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:38:40 +0700

Simon Wilson wrote:

> It just seems to me to be (more than) a little bit of a waste of time for a
> server to generate
> XML within such as system, pass it back to the caller and for the consumer to
> not actually look
> at it directly, but rather use a standardized interface such as DOM.

Not necessarily.  There can be a big cost in using a general-purpose DOM
implementation rather than using an API and implementation tuned to the
needs of a particular application.

James



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