• To: tblanchard@m...
• Subject: Re: What is XML For?
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:51:19 +0100
• Cc: 'The Deviants' <xml-dev@l...>
• Organization: Expway
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tblanchard@m... wrote:
> I'll disagree with *all* of the syntax being handled for you.  Markup is 
> handled so-so on the sax parsers - but content is handled fairly 
> stupidly - many many extra callbacks for little bits of text seems to be 
> the rule - forcing the developer to do some relatively fancy text 
> aggregation and some of his own event detection based on history.
> 
> At least that's been my experience.

In this case, SAX reproduces the behaviour of parsers described in the 
XML spec. However, you can always use a filter that will guarantee that 
all characters between two pieces of markup are passed in a single event.

-- 
Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
Research Engineer, Expway
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