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• Subject: Re: Fast text output from SAX?
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:11:35 -0400
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Bob Wyman wrote:
> Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> 
>>But presumably the alternative "quasi-xml" you will be 
>>testing will not likely be producing SAX events, but 
>>instead some proprietary parse system instead.
> 
> 	Why would this be assumed? It seems to me that SAX has proved
> its utility and that anyone who builds an alternative to XML should
> probably ensure that an XMLReader can be built for it that behaves as
> a normal SAX reader would. The application user should be shielded as
> much as possible from concern for the on-the-wire or on-disk format of
> the data they are working with. I suspect that a format that was
> somehow "incapable" of producing SAX events faithfully is probably
> fundamentally flawed in its ability to represent XML documents.

I didn't mean that I assume this will always, or that such an alternate 
system *couldn't* produce a SAX  event stream.  I only question whether 
they mostly *will*.

Cheers,

Tom P

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