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From: "Aleksander Slominski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Xerces2] Pull Parsing
> Ted Leung wrote:
>
> > I think that we have slightly different design centers for the API.
From
> > reading
> > your pages and your comments, It seems to me that you are focused on
> > small jar size and minimum API. Is this accurate?
>
> hi,
>
> actual simplicity was primary design goal - small size is no longer that
> critical (full XPP2 interfaces + implementation jar file is now 42K). i
just
> wanted to have an "optimal" pull parsing API (as defined by balance
between
> elegant and efficient though it is matter of personal preferences too..
:-))
>
> > I'm interested in pull parsing as a replacement API for SAX and DOM.
DOM
> > is too bloated, and SAX is not very intuitive for most people. So I'm
> > leaning
> > towards something like your XMLPullParserEvent. It involves object like
> > behavior,
> > which is something that DOM people like, but it won't be as bloated as
DOM,
> > which everybody will like. The one thing I still don't like is the
object
> > creation, so
> > perhaps it would be better to make XMLPullParserEvent an interface, and
have
> > the user pass in an a object that would be filled in by the parser.
>
> XMLPullParserEvent is collection of singleton objects (States) and there
is no
> overhead of creation during parsing at all (except initial class loading
> overhead) - when compared to using byte to describe state: a byte can be
> slightly more efficient then working on references (8 bytes) but i think
it is a
> negligibly small difference :-)
I don't think that XMLPullParserEvent is much use unless it contains data
that
the application can use. The object creation I was concerned about was
creating
objects to be returned from next().
> adding XMLPullParserEvent (back) to XPP2 API is not a big change and as it
is
> still beta version i will just change API if i am convinced that other
people
> find it more nice / intuitive to use :-)
>
> another interesting thing to discuss would be how to plug-in Xerces2 pull
> interface and if it will require XPP2 API changes...
>
> thanks,
>
> alek
>
>
>
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