> What if I want to validate the result of an Xalan transform? Do I have > to stream it to disk?
Damn good point. It would really be nice to have an on-the-fly validation of the result tree. I haven't really been keeping up on the work for schemas in Xerces. Is there a difference between validation and schema processing?? Eventually, Xalan & associated formatters will need to process schemas for both the input and the output trees without XML being involved. For input so that it can support future XSLT type matching, and for the output so that formatters can handle type manipulation. -scott Paul Prescod <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .net> cc: (bcc: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus) Subject: Re: Validator 01/13/00 07:55 PM Please respond to xerces-dev Is it really the case that the protocol between parser and validator could become a huge performance drain? I would have expected it to be a quiet conversation in comparison to the noise of Unicode character lookups, URL fetches, lexical analysis, well-formedness checking, and so forth. My experience is that the best XML parsers often work at IO speeds (at least on my computer) so there is probably time to spare for a little abstraction and code reuse. What if I want to validate the result of an Xalan transform? Do I have to stream it to disk? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey