xml-dev - Re: Streams, protocols, documents and fragments

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Tom Harding writes:
 > David Megginson wrote:
 > 
 > > It's not necessarily the raw XML that will be delivered to the
 > > application, however
 > 
 > How about we create an architecture where it is?  I have a sample
 > implementation of XP where an endpoint fires an event when it has
 > received a document.  The event wraps a DOM Document, so the XML
 > has been parsed, but any real processing, such as rendering, is
 > still up to the application.

It all depends on your layering approach: personally, if typing
information is available, I'd rather use that to build optimised
internal representations first and hand those off to the application
-- a general-purpose DOM would be *extremely* inefficient for handling 
things like vector graphics or 3D worlds (to name only two), though it 
is always possible to expose their optimised object models through a
DOM interface later if necessary.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david@megginson.com
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