Re: [xml-dev] Does SAX make sense?

["zhengyu" <zhengyu@attbi.com>]

I have got a weird question in mind that I would like to toss it out.

Suppose there is a way to offer DOM type interface with SAX kind of
efficiency.
How long would it take for the new processing model to become really
popular?

Jimmy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@waclawek.net>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Does SAX make sense?


>
> > There are several implementations, but I don't know of any standard
> > interface. I have been thinking that having a standard interface just
> > for passing XPath expressions to an event parser would be great. Anyone
> > know of a standard being worked, implementations, or interested in
> > starting a working group? If so, I'm in.
>
> I am working on something similar, but much simpler right now.
> My XPaths are just straight paths, or in other words,  element types.
>
> My initial plan was to build a DTD (or other schema) validator
> (on top of SAX) which has callback hooks for custom validation
> or processing. The callbacks are registered by the application
> based on a path - but rather a path based on the schema object
> model and not the document object model. Every node in the SOM
> corresponds to a separate set of callbacks.
>
> So far I was not thinking of anything more complex, as I think
> this would be quite an effort.
>
> Karl
>
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