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Re: [xml-dev] Push / pull model

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To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Push / pull model
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:36:56 -0700
Cc: keith@woc.org, Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>,xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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John Cowan wrote:

> The redoubtable James Clark has said that it was much more straightforward
> to write a RELAX NG validator for the compact syntax than for the XML
> syntax, basically because the XML syntax could not make use of the
> recursive descent pattern easily because the info items were being pushed.

Hee-hee, on the other hand, most of the popular XML processors are built 
around recursive-descent algorithms.  -Tim

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