shilling for my feature request [1926]

[Troy Rollins]

On Jul 31, 2004, at 12:09 AM, Troy Rollins wrote:

> Very interesting. You certainly are quite the evangelist for the 
> merits of pull-parsing. I read the reference docs, but I have to 
> admit, I'm not the parsing method connoisseur I suppose I should be. 
> I've always used the "whatever works" approach. To that end, I've used 
> both DOM and SAX, and rolled-my-own in other instances. I'm still not 
> positive I'd know when to say "this needs a pull-parser!" Nor can I 
> claim to fully understand all the benefits and efficiencies of MTML, 
> fortunately, I doubt I am alone in that.  ;-)

FWIW - if anyone is interested, this document, linked from one of the 
links Mark provided, probably offers the clearest definitions of the 
various parsing types I've seen so far -

<http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/03-sep/o53devxml.html>

Scroll to the very bottom for a nice pros and cons chart.
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Troy
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