xml-dev - Re: XML and LDAP: Common APIs?

[Sean McGrath <sean@digitome.com>]

At 09:27 AM 8/24/00 -0700, Lauren Wood wrote:
>
>On a side note, I've even had people talk to me about using DOM 
>methods to walk a text document, where you map the lines into 
>the equivalents of elements, with the line breaks being the 
>demarcation between them. Then you can apply (some) DOM 
>methods to the resulting tree. I'm still not sure why anyone would 
>*want* to do this, but it's possible.
>
In my book[1], there is a sample SAX driver for MySQL. Using
it, you can treat any MySQL database as a SAX event source.

Put a DOM builder on top of the SAX events and you could,
theoretically, process any MySQL RDB with DOM:-)

regards,
Sean

[1] XML Processing with Python, Prentice Hall

http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python