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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Tim Bray wrote:
> At 06:05 PM 04/11/00 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > Basically, procedural
> >code is great for data oriented XML structures, but almost useless for XML
> >mixed content. For mixed content you really need declarative code.
>
> Wow; a neat bifurcation of the universe. I wish life were that
> simple. Suffice it to say that many will disagree with this
> particular pair of broad brush strokes. -Tim
Go on then, disagree :-)
I make careful note that a stream based parser that says:
if (element == 'foo') {
...
}
elsif (element == 'bar') {
...
}
is also declarative, as would be a DOM based parser that walks the DOM
tree with some sort of iterator doing something similar. By procedural I
mean something that says:
foreach foo element
output "foo: "
foreach bar element child of foo
output " = "
foreach text child of bar
output the text
Mapping that model to mixed content is, umm, difficult, to say the least.
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