Switching between DOM and SAX

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Sat Sep 19 20:14:19 BST 1998


Sean Mc Grath scripsit:

> The reverse conversion is also very valuable. I wonder how it would
> work with SAX/DOM?

The Docuverse DOM SDK (as well as any competitors that may eventually
appear, no doubt) already supports this.

> When processing large documents building entire trees is
> resource intensive and time consuming. Sometimes you only
> the power of tree navigation stuff for sub-parts of the
> source document.

This is difficult with the DOM, because every Node must have
a pointer to the root (Document) Node.

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John Cowan					cowan at ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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