Re: [xml] Making SAX more useful...

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:19:26PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> At the moment the SAX parser really has second place to the DOM parser (at
> least that's my gut feeling), because you have to do so much work to make
> it useful (I've just discovered that it doesn't do entity resolution for
> you - which is the opposite of all other SAX implementations I've used).

  Well, problem is that I build DOM on top of this expat/SAX and it
would be more difficult to handle this if entities are substitued before
the callbacks

> Is there a plan to make it a more "first class" interface? At the moment
> it's requires a fair amount of custom code to implement parsing reasonably
> complex documents.

  Well it's not really a priority right now. there is also the
point that I don't want to break the API, and this will probably requires
an API redesign.

Daniel

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