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. . .
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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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