shilling for my feature request [1926]

[Pierre Sahores]

Thanks Mark,

Best,

Pierre

Le 31 juil. 04, à 05:48, Mark Brownell a écrit :

>
> On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 05:59 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
>
>> For those of us who aren't familiar with the term "pull-parser", I'll 
>> ask some indulgence. Like most of us, I parse a lot of string 
>> content, and I'm familiar with a number of models for parsing XML 
>> content, for instance. But, what specifically is a pull-parser and 
>> how does #1926 make it possible / better?
>> --
>> Troy
>
> OK school time.
>
> from here:
> http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xdk/staxpreview.html
>
> "Oracle StAX Pull Parser Preview
>
> A new XML document parsing technology is being developed as part of 
> the Java Community Process to supplement DOM and SAX. Called Streaming 
> API for XML or StAX, this technology is being developed under JSR-173 
> and is in its final draft stage. StAX parsing has significant 
> advantages over DOM and SAX which are discussed in the Sep/Oct. issue 
> of Oracle Magazine in the article - Parsing XML Efficiently.
>
> StAX gives parsing control to you through either a simple 
> iterator-based API and an underlying stream of events or a cursor 
> style object API. Methods such as next() and hasNext() allow you to 
> pull the event by asking for next one rather than handling it in a 
> callback. This gives you precise control over XML document processing. 
> As distinct from other event-based approaches StAX allows you to stop 
> processing the document, skip ahead to sections of the document, or 
> get subsections of the document."
>
> More on pull-parsers at
> here: http://www.xmlpull.org/
>
> So...
> These new split functions would allow us to set our own rules for 
> next(), nextTag(), and nextText() while streaming fragments out of of 
> full XML documents. This is because we would have high speed functions 
> to pull data out of large documents and the need for not relying on 
> the streaming method would leave those current pull-parser 
> implementations further behind.
>
> MTML breaks the rules in a way that XML was never meant to. MTML 
> element type tag sets can begin within an other tag set and end 
> outside these other tag sets. This would break most XML parsers and 
> even some of the new streaming designs that are designed as 
> implementations of pull-parsing. All this adds up to the designer of 
> the data structure being able to run modified and simple data 
> transfers. "This is a good thing" Martha Stewart. It's better to dust 
> off your competitors if you can offer the option. Development time 
> within RunRev including this kind of data structuring can be a winning 
> combination for you when it comes to offering services.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark
>
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