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- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Microsoft's vision of data and the role of XML in that context
- From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:39:35 +0100
- In-reply-to: <1032404042.27591.ezmlm@lists.xml.org>
[Joshua Allen]
>> 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.
That pull-to-read, push-to-write thing is the whole idea behind the
line-oriented,
pipe friendly PYX notation (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/)
Sean
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