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Joshua Allen scripsit:
> We made heavy investments in the "pull model" of parsing as an
> alternative to event-based parsing ala SAX. It is possible to do "pull
> until match" and raise events to get the same effect as SAX, but we felt
> that the pull model was more approachable for the average developer.
I quite agree: it is superior because of its better fit with programmer
insight. Files, pipes, database cursors behave in just this way: pull to read,
push to write.
> Normally a navigator implies buffering, while the forward-only cursor
> implies no buffering, but this really depends on implementation of a
> particular XML store.
Excellent.
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