RE: [xml-dev] Re: SAX is not a read-only API (wa RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17...)

At 9:59 PM -0600 9/12/02, Aaron Skonnard wrote:

>Nothing stops an XMLReader implementation from pulling information from
>a database and making it look like an XML Infoset to the consumer.
>

Have you actually tried to do this? I have. See 
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch08s05.html. It 
can be done, but because this was not the original goal of XMLReader, 
the interface just doesn't fit. It's an exercise in pounding a square 
peg into a round hole. It's extremely ugly, and clear evidence that 
SAX was not intended to be used in this manner.
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