At 12:58 AM +0900 7/18/02, Andy Clark wrote: >Next, I plan on designing a pull-parser API that builds >on the Xerces Native Interface. This API is not meant to >be a competitor to existing pull-parsing projects such >as XPP. Rather, it is meant to show the flexibility and >power of the XNI framework to address other parsing needs >while leveraging the existing library of XNI components.
Please do make it a competitor to XPP et al. Competion is good for everyone. Currently the XMLPULL API has a lot of things I consider to be bad design and some outright violations with XML 1.0, none of which the maintainers seem willing to fix. If nothing better comes along, then I'm afraid pull parsing in Java is doomed to irrelevance, which would be a shame. Pull parsing is a useful, convenient style of processing. However it needs a parser and an API that actually works. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
