> on 2002/12/20 12:01 PM, "Jim Palm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If they work the same way (and the memory footprint > > for DOM and ECS are the same) in which cases ECS would > > be better than DOM? Actually, why would there be ECS? >
A brief history, ECS predates DOM, and was originally developed to facilitate easy html document creation, and grew from there. I bolted on the support for creating xml documents as XML became more and more popular, and because I thought the DOM was an unwieldy beast . I later added rtf support so that I could do document translations from xml->rtf for a client I was working at. I don't recall if ECS uses more or less memory then DOM, I suspect less but I don't have any hard numbers to back it up. I reworked ECS underlying framework at one point which reduced it's memory considerably as well as improved it's overall performance. I called this ecs2 but never got any further then the core framework. -stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
