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Re: [xml-dev] DOM or SAX: Sense and Sensibility



On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> How often do you as experienced XML developers
> find people in your shop using DOM for work
> more appropriate to SAX?   Have you asked
> them why and what do they say?  What are the
> costs of picking the wrong API?

Even worse, one I've seen in processing pipelines is converting to textual
XML (as a big in-memory string) then passing it into the next stage to be
reparsed!

>
> len
>

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