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• Subject: Re: Microsoft's vision of data and the role of XML in that context
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:39:35 +0100
• In-reply-to: <1032404042.27591.ezmlm@l...>

[Joshua Allen]
 >> We made heavy investments in the "pull model" of parsing as an
 >> alternative to event-based parsing ala SAX.  It is possible to do "pull
 >> until match" and raise events to get the same effect as SAX, but we felt
 >> that the pull model was more approachable for the average developer.

 >I quite agree: it is superior because of its better fit with programmer
 >insight.  Files, pipes,  database cursors behave in just this way: pull 
to read,
 >push to write.

That pull-to-read, push-to-write thing is the whole idea behind the 
line-oriented,
pipe friendly PYX notation (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/)

Sean

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