You can be confident that the "buffers" approach was explicitly rejected.
It is the mechanism used in the most popular transformation tool in the
SGML world, "omnimark." I think of tree navigation based languages as a
reaction *against* that.

Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> 
> I think this would allow doing anything XSL allows in a single SAX pass. 

How do you express "if my parent's parent's last sibling's 'security'
attribute is 'top secret' then generate a digital-signature element" or
more generally "if there exists an element with the following
characteristics"
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