Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (Open Source)

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Elliotte Harold <>
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Alex Milowski <>
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2005-04-12T15:30:31Z
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Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] smallx XML Infoset and Pipeline Released (Open Source)
Alex Milowski wrote:

> In smallx you stream info items--not SAX.  As such, when you receive
> a start tag you get the name, attributes, and in-scope namespaces.
> In SAX, those are separate callbacks and implementing against that
> is much harder.

That's blatantly incorrect. Names and attributes are not separate 
callbacks in SAX. They are passed as arguments to startElement. In-scope 
namespaces do require separate callbacks, but that's rarely needed.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  
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