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   Re: The Peace Process: DOM and namespaces...

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  • From: "Rick Ross" <rick@activated.com>
  • To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:00:16 -0500

One of the benefits we are trying to deliver to customers, however, is the
ability to use any parser that offers a standard DOM and SAX
implementations. Could this approach be implemented solely within our
processor-side logic, and rely only on standard implementations of DOM Level
1 that exist in most of today's XML parsers?

Rick

James Clark wrote:
> 
> Rick Ross wrote:
> 
> > the XSL working draft
> > specification requires  namespace support that apparently cannot be
> > implemented effectively if the primary input source is a dynamically built
> > DOM tree.
> 
> I can't see this.
> 
> Why can't you put a layer on top of the DOM that provides namespace
> processing? For example, you could have an NSNode object that points to
> the DOM Node and a set of prefix bindings (and probably a parent
> NSNode).   The NSNode objects will be temporary.  You wouldn't have to
> reparse the document, and you don't have to keep two trees in memory.
> You can also provide other things in this layer that help XSL
> performance such as document order comparison.
> 
> James

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