Re: [xml] What is the advantage of a Reader vs a Parser?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:36:26PM +1200, BJ Chippindale wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I read the code examples and documentation, implemented a reader and I
> am implementing a parser, and I STILL have to ask.  It looks as though
> the parser and the reader both walk the tree with the reader doing it
> more "hands off", and I can't find anything to tell me why/when I should
> use one and not the other.  Can anyone point me at something that will
> tell me?  ... or am I about to find out as I do the parser? 

  The Reader will use low memory. It will never need a full version of the
tree in memory, i.e. it's a streaming parser...

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  This sounds incompatible with archival of this list and exposing the
archives on-line :-(

Daniel

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