[gdome]RE: Using XSLT and SAX with XML::GDOME

[Matt Sergeant <msergeant startechgroup co uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: T.J. Mather [mailto:tjmather tjmather com]
> 
> One of the next steps for XML::GDOME was to add the ability to
> transform XML::GDOME trees to XML::LibXML trees and vice-versa.
> A reason to do this was to be able to access the XSLT and SAX 
> functions 
> that XML::LibXSLT and XML::LibXML provide.  However, we are 
> not tied to 
> using transforms to XML::LibXML documents to provide XSLT and SAX.
> 
> So, what is the best way of providing XSLT and SAX functions for 
> XML::GDOME?  Is there any other reason to provide transforms to 
> XML::LibXML besides the ability to access the XSLT and SAX 
> functionality?  
> XPath should be coming to GDOME soon.

Once GDOME gets XPath, I would say make XSLT and SAX native, rather than
converting to a LibXML tree. To that end I would include your own SAX code
in XML::GDOME, and we'll work on making XML::LibXSLT support GDOME trees
(presumably by accessing the internal libxml2 tree from the XS code).

Matt.

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