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Joshua Allen wrote:
> 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.
Yep, I suspect that .Net learned from experience and got this one right
and pull parsing is the way to go in the future. The first 3 XML
parsers (Lark, NXP, and expat) all were event-driven because... er well
that was 1996, can't exactly remember, seemed like a good idea at the
time. -Tim
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