Re: [xml-dev] Pushing SAX events out onto the Web?

From
Jim Ancona <>
To
"Roger L. Costello" <>,
Date
2002-08-14T16:43:56Z
ID
<>
Thread
Re: [xml-dev] Pushing SAX events out onto the Web?
--- "Roger L. Costello" <> wrote:
> Scenario:
> 
> I have a sensor that is collecting information over time.  As the data
> is collected I want to stream it out to clients.  The data within each
> element is huge.  Consequently, the number of SAX events would be small
> compared with the size of the data.

Keep in mind though, that the parser is free to split that element data into
multiple SAX events. Quoting from the doc:

"SAX parsers may return all contiguous character data in a single chunk, or
they may split it into several chunks;"

So the number of events might not be as small as you think.

Jim

[1] - http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/ContentHandler.html#characters(char[],%20int,%20int)

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Jim Ancona
                     

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