RE: [xml-dev] VTD-XML an open-source, high-performance and non-extractive XML processing API

["Nathan Young \(natyoung\)" <natyoung@cisco.com>]

That mirrors the approach I took to validation in NML:

http://ncyoung.com/entry/501 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:15 AM
> To: Michael Champion
> Cc: XML Developers List
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] VTD-XML an open-source, 
> high-performance and non-extractive XML processing API
> 
> Michael Champion wrote:
> 
> > I think the point is that the process that creates the XML 
> can confirm
> > that it is well-formed / valid, and produce a VTD associated with a
> > document/message, then downstream processes that understand VTD can
> > exploit it.  
> 
> I don't see that as the use case at all. I certainly wouldn't support 
> passing VTD between different processes, systems, or 
> organizations; any 
> more than I would suggest passing a DOM or a SAX event stream. The 
> proper serialization for XML is XML, nothing more, nothing less.
> 
> I see VTD as an alternate, disk-backed object model that 
> competes with 
> SAX and DOM within a single program. This could have big 
> advantages for 
> memory use and could allow indexing and fast access into the data. 
> However, this certainly shouldn't be passed around on the 
> wire any more 
> than any other object model should be.
> 
> -- 
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