>> you don't have to use a far too complex xml parser like xerces or the one that
>ships with sun's java
>> it's no problem to write a specialized, small and fast xml parser for this project
>only, you just drop things linke xlink, xpointer, namespaces and stuff, make
an
>> easily machine-readable dtd and use a function like String header =
>getBetween("<header">,"</header>") or customize it to getBetweenTag("header"),
>> then you can make a for(Enumeration
>subnodes=getSubNodeEnumerationBetweenTag("header");) and eat all subnodes right away.
>simple.
>> you can even drop support for node attributes, anything can be described fine with
>just nude elements, and it is much more readable.
>> having designed a dtd, too, you can easily port your protocol to other projects as
>well, without demangling the source or digging into some specs....
>>
>
>Why bother re-inventing a subset of XML to do this, when we already
>have and use fieldset code for doing all our configuration and for the
>network protocol? If we do end up using a subset of XML, it'd look
>like XML, and people would try throwing real XML with all its quirks
>and evilness at the parsers designed for mini-XML, and things "just
>wouldn't work."
hm, you are right.... show me a failsafe program or algorithm
but xml would be SO nice :[
and given the dtd every user knows which elements are accepted. right now i can patch
the metadata by inserting unknown keywords, too
i saw there was no positive feedback on this idea, so i just try to comfort with this
and do not annoy anymore...
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