• To: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Subject: Re: genx - consensus items
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 04:42:38 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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David Tolpin wrote:

> Bob Foster:
> 
>>Conversely, James Clark has written several serializers, e.g., XmlWriter 
>>in trang, in which the convention is:
>>
>>startElement*
>>   attribute*
>>
>>   (text | startElement)*
>>
>>endElement
>>
>>No explicit end-start-tag is used or needed. The writer can tell when a 
>>start tag needs to end; in fact, the convention helps to produce empty 
>>element tags without backtracking. Use is simple and natural.
> 
> 
> James Clark is an honorable man.
> 
> XmlWriter from trang is tailored to the particular use in trang; namely
> for tree traversal. It is only one test case of many.

I would think tree traversal is a pretty important use case. What's the 
other use case, array traversal? ;-}

Bob Foster
http://xmlbuddy.com/

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