FYI, threads on xerces-j-dev: http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.text.xml.xerces-j.devel&root=%3C3F80F438.2060500%40apache.org%3E http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.text.xml.xerces-j.devel&root=%3COFF6864861.CC02E004-ON85256DAB.006F7AF0%40ca.ibm.com%3E
--- Marc Portier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > just been reading up on the new StAX API > (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=173) > > can't help being (a bit) enthousiastic, looks to me like an important > step into the direction of efficient parsing of XML > (seems to be more valuable then just a symbiosis of the existing pull > parsing approaches currently out there) > > the spec is short and provides a genuine brain-feeding read: in fact one > gets to notice how SAX left some room for efficiency improvements: e.g. > the characters event in SAX cannot be trusted not to reuse the same > buffer variable which means you have to do a mem-copy on the event even > if only later in the event-stream you can decide that you could discard > it anyway... > > > still have to do some personal tests to really dig what they mean with > their proclaimed pipelining support, but already I have the idea that > this is one to keep an eye on in our line of working (e.g. FO > implementations could benefit IMHO) > > > also their (to be done in future release :-() 'virtual data source' is > read by me as some natural fit on our pseudo-protocols meeting > java-beans passed/stored in the request, flow or session context > > > well, if nothing else, the trendspotter in me kind of noticed this: > > # Support for non-namespace aware documents becomes optional! > ==> You are running out of excuses to not be doing namespaces! > # XML's verbosity is calling upon some efficiency focus > ==> XML starts being used in domains with large datasets or documents > # SAX-meme is infecting XML-designs > ==> Sensible improvements (more avoided mem-copies) > ==> Another API endorsing the XML-Pipeline-Processing paradigm > > > regards, > -marc= > -- > Marc Portier http://outerthought.org/ > Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center > Read my weblog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
