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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> xml-dev
xml-dev
Re: SAX2: marrying SAX and DOM
by Ken MacLeod other posts by this author
Mar 9 2000 7:30PM messages near this date
Re: It's the syntax. . . | RE: schema by example
David Brownell <david-b@[...].net>  writes:

>  > Ken MacLeod <ken@[...].us> writes:
>  > 
>  > > The Perl SAX binding has used what I believe to be a very
>  > > powerful technique that I'd like to propose for SAX 2.0:
>  > > 
>  > >     Event handlers should be passed a DOM node instead of
>  > >     positional parameters.
>  
>  Seems to me that this is exactly what you'd get if you
>  listened for the right type of mutation events on the
>  root node of the DOM tree as it's being populated.
>  
>  No new API needed -- DOM L2 has such callbacks today.

That's a good point, is the SAX API needed if a similar API exists?
<me ducks="1"/> 

The biggest difference I think would be that SAX (generally) would use
"unattached" nodes in a push, start/end, mode.

  -- Ken

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