xml-dev - Re: nestable C/C++ XML parser?

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>]

Lars> Lars Marius Garshol <URL:mailto:larsga@garshol.priv.no>

0> In article <m37liqad77.fsf@ifi.uio.no>, Lars wrote:

Lars> The only application I see for this sort of thing is to be able
Lars> to work around XML syntax rules,

I see a demand for parsing a document with SAX, but using some
start-tags to switch to building DOM (or DOM-like) objects, returning
to stream-oriented processing afterwards.  Perhaps you have a large
"set" or "list", and you know that the members of that collection can
be processed independently - why waste memory on a complete DOM for
that?

Lars> but once you do that your document is no longer an XML document
Lars> and you shouldn't pretend that it is, not even to yourself.

This bit I agree with.

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