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> I guess that makes SAX masochistic. It's hardly a tree of nodes > until something rips through the start and tags and builds that tree > of nodes. I guess that makes SAX masochistic. I think you're off the rails here. I would think Dimitre doesn't mean that it is masochistic to use a system that flattens XML, as long as the system takes account of the XML syntax rules and does this flattening in a well-understood way. SAX is just such a system. My DOM+Generator preference is another such system, although its advantage for me over SAX is that it makes state processing very easy. Using a regex on raw XML text is a different matter altogether. Is that really a difficult distinction to see? > And I don't understand this disdain for regular expressions over > XML. Regexes are a perfectly useful tool for manipulating text. Sure they are, and I use them for manipulating text all the time in my XML processing code, *after* the parser has sorted out the structure for me. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use internal references in XML vocabularies - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerw orks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html Universal Business Language (UBL) - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/l ibrary/x-think16.html EXSLT by example - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-exslt.html The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238 Use rdf:about and rdf:ID effectively in RDF/XML - http://www-106.ibm.com/develo perworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html Keep context straight in XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-tipcurrent.html Using SAX for Proper XML Output - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.ht ml SAX filters for flexible processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml /library/x-tipsaxflex.html
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