xml-dev - Re: Lark 0.90 available, with an application

[Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk (Peter Murray-Rust)]

In message <Pine.OSF.3.93.970627162429.950H-100000@edusrv.edu.uni-klu.ac.at> Norbert Mikula writes:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> I have also had a similar idea a few days ago.*1
> I would like to know whether you guys think it makes
> sense to go even further and have also this kind of
> calls for attributes and other potential "nodes" in 
> our parse tree. I would think so.

Yes.  Definitely.  The more of this that can be generalised, the better.
Essentially quite a lot of JUMBO is involved in this sort of processing
and I'd be more than happy to try to migrate JUMBO's ideas towards an API.
My Node class (== Element, more or less) has nearly 100 member functions,
and I'll try to post them as a javadoc API (just needs locating on the WWW).


> 
> Now the question remains if this approach should substitute
> the event base stream that built the bottom layer of
> our XAPI-J discussion. I think the event based approach
> should still form the base. Many people, I believe,
> feel still very comfortable with it.

I feel very comfortable with the event stream API and I would certainly
not substitute it.  Essentially JUMBO can consume Elements from either an
NXP-like event stream, or a Lark-like tree structure.  It may be useful to
identify those objects such as Element and Attribute that are relevant to both
environments, and there could be an Element/Attribute Factory sitting on top
of both (but leaving them exposed as well for those who need the lower level).

	P.


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