Folks:
In planning to use Sablotron or 'by hand' handling of an expat parse'd file,
I was wondering how the overall architecture of Sablotron works. We like to
use expat (SAX) on record based input streams because we can handle each
'record' (first level element) as it ends, instead of (DOM) reading in every
single line of the XML file and THEN parsing it. In our case, this can be
thousands of items, which is why I like a SAX parser (expat) - read one self
supporting element and output that in it's correct format, move onto the next.
Just as efficient, and much much less memory intensive than reading the entire
(megabytes) xml stream into a DOM.
SO, does sablotron read everything into memory and then produce the output
file?
== John ==
