RE: [xml-dev] XML Hangover

> No, not at all, see above.  The processor builds the entire 
> output tree, then perhaps may serialize to a text format.  

That's the conceptual model. Many implementations, of course, optimize this
by serializing each node in the result tree as soon as it is created. But
the conceptual model is the one that a developer should have in their head.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/