Hi All,
I am facing a design decision problem regarding
whether to use Xerces C++ SAX or
DOM parser. The requirements are as
follows:
I want to prepare a generalized (nested) linked
list (so that it may contain other linked lists)
from the data in a configuration file
in XML format. Then
the user will do various operations on the linked
list such as add, modify,
delete nodes and can also save the modified data
in the linked list back to
the configuration file.
I want to know whether I should use SAX or DOM
parser in parsing the configuration
file.
**If I use DOM parser, I need to update the DOM
tree for each operation on the
linked list such that the linked list and the DOM
tree are in sync. For saving data
to configuration file, I need to traverse the DOM
tree and write it to output file.
**If I use SAX parser, for saving data to
confoguration file, I need to traverse the
linked list and generate XML from
it.
Please let me know which parser should I use from
the ease of implementation and
efficiency point of view.
Thanks in advance,
-Vinay
Kakade
