SAX RFD: ModSAX Predefined Features

[MikeDacon at aol.com]

Hi Bill,

In a message dated 3/7/99 10:03:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
b.laforge at jxml.com writes:
> Well, that might depend on the job of the filter. You may want to use a 
> filter
>  to prune out the parts of the document you are not interested in BEFORE
>  the DOM is built.

I agree with you.  I was not saying that access to the DOM was the only
way to write a filter.  Just that filters can be based on walking a 
DOM Document tree as you state below. 

>  
>  In general, I see several places where you might want to use a filter:
>  
>      o  Transform events from a parser into something to be output.
>  
>      o  Transform events from a parser before being accessed by an 
> application.
>  
>      o  Between a parser and the DOM.
>  
>      o Transform events from a DOM walker into something to be output.
>  

Best wishes,

 - Mike (mdaconta at aol.com)

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