xml-dev - Re: SAX2: pull interface

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> David Megginson <david@megginson.com>:
> 
> > Personally, I like recursive-descent a lot (and probably wouldn't
> > have finished writing the original AElfred parser otherwise).  Miles
> > guesses correctly that SAX1 was push to accommodate existing
> > parsers.
> 
> Doesn't recursive descent parsers have a problem with partial input
> received from the net?  Don't you have to buffer up the entire file
> before you start parsing?

Not per se, but most RD parsers will block waiting for the rest of the
input rather than returning control to the caller.  That's not a
problem with multiple threads, but it's sometimes very inconvenient in 
a single-threaded environment.


All the best,


David

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