Streaming XML? [was Re: XML Information Set Requirements..]

[Tim.Shaw at wdr.com]

     This was one of my initial concerns on the DOM - I too will be working 
     on ticker-type streams.
     
     I nearly jumped in early in this conversation to agree with the 
     'others' - ie the SAX approach is just as important as DOM and the 2 
     should both be of similar (standards) status.
     
     I held off because I'm new to XML, and I wasn't sure if my alternative 
     wasn't too obvious to mention.
     
     I thought that each tick should be treated as a document. The client 
     would have to arrange that each 'document' so received would have to 
     be built, and then a document fragment extracted and inserted into a 
     client-held document (updating display etc. via DOM events as 
     appropriate).
     
     This approach requires the client of the XML data-source to be aware 
     of this of course, which may be a killer for genericity.
     
     Am I way off base here - and if so, could someone point me to current 
     thinking on this issue (I've browsed _a lot_ and seen little/nothing).
     
     Thanks
     
     tim


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Subject: Re: XML Information Set Requirements, W3C Note 18-February
Author:  cowan (cowan at locke.ccil.org) at unix,mime
Date:    19/02/99 22:06


Nathan Kurz wrote:
     
> And if the stream is continuous (for example, an XML
> stock ticker) even the concept of a well-formed stream seems tenuous.
     
It's not clear that XML supports infinitely long streams (where the 
end-tag of the document element is *never* reached).
     
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