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• Subject: Re: genx - consensus items
• From: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:20:42 +0400 (AMT)
• In-reply-to: <40110F9A.28544717@n...>

Ed Davies:
> David Tolpin wrote:
> > 
> > StartTagOpen/StartTagClose+EndTag vs startElement/endElement
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > At the same time, if the API is on  the level of tags, I want to say the tag
> > is closed; in fact, I would prefer StartTagClose to be passed the tag's name
> > argument, same about endTag. It would help me write better programs.
> 
> Perhaps StartStartTag or StartTagOpen or whatever can return an opaque
> element reference (could be a pointer to an internal structure or simply 
> a nesting stack level count) which is then passed to StartTagClose and EndTag
> to allow early detection of mismatches.  A bit more lightweight than
> passing the element name + namespace gubbins and maybe having to do
> string compares.

I don't think there is any performance penalty in just comparing the strings.

David

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