Re: XML API specification

Peter Murray-Rust (Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 27 Feb 1997 15:40:21 GMT

Thanks very much Tim,
In message <3.0.32.19970227071327.00a32fe4@pop.intergate.bc.ca> Tim Bray writes:
> At 02:54 PM 27/02/97 GMT, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
[...]
>
> Lark always provides an event stream, and whether or not it also builds
> a tree can be toggled on and off by the calling app while it's running.
> This sounds like what you want. - Tim

Exactly!

Two ways of using it come to mind.
(a) using a PI to switch this on and off. This is sufficiently fundamental
that it might be made an XML PI (<?XML EVENTSTREAM?> and <?XML TREE?>) or
similar
(b) certain GIs or attributes could toggle this (e.g. <HTML>)

P.

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