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[Niels Peter Strandberg <mailto:nielspeter at npstrandberg.com> > I have made an experimental SAX XMLFilter. It allows you to "filter" out > the information in an xml document that you want to work with - using > xpath - and skip the rest. You can place the filter anywhere in your > application where a XMLFilter can be used. > - I don't know if this has already been done by others? I wrote something like this a little while ago (optimistically named SAXomata because it uses an FSA-like approach where SAX events are the letters in an alphabet); it's on my list of partially finished projects. As you're describing, it uses a kind of bastardized XPath syntax, i.e., no axes, limited qualifiers, ... The net effect was nice: a few milliseconds to execute a set of non-node-valued XPath queries against a SAX parse versus tens of milliseconds to execute a set of XPath queries in addition to constructing a DOM from the SAX parse. I haven't yet looked at the internals of what you're doing, but I don't imagine that there are too many ways to go about it. It does sound like there is enough interest (and existing code out there) to come up with some kind of developer-driven spec and create some tools. -- Paul
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