Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> Hmmm, interesting. I just skimmed apr_xml.h, and indeed, it's a
> different approach. Subversion defines expat callbacks that do
> specific "work" for each tag as the parse is in progress. But the APR
> method is to parse the whole document into memory, and then hand the
> whole linked list of structures over to your program.
>
> I guess this wouldn't be *such* a big change. I mean, we'd just need
> to write a a single routine that walks a fully parsed XML-document
> structure, and calls our existing callbacks!
Hmmm, is this desirable, though? We've compromised in the past and
read entire structures into memory to save the development time
associated with a streamy approach, but this would be the first time
we actually "regressed" streamy code to become in-memory code. :-)
Shouldn't we prefer an XML parser that at least *can* work streamily,
even if we don't always use it that way?
-K
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Received on Sun Mar 17 22:51:09 2002