Re: Goals: XML Event Interface

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 13:05:32 -0800


At 02:58 PM 18/12/97 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> Should a common XML event-based API supply enough information to
> build a DOM representation of a document?

Maybe, maybe not, depending what you mean by "common". For the simple
interface we're trying to build, this cannot be remotely a goal. The
only goal should be to give application authors access to the
elements, attributes and character data of a document in the most
transparent possible way. -Tim