Re: Switching between DOM and SAX

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:20:41 -0400 (EDT)


Sean Mc Grath scripsit:

> The reverse conversion is also very valuable. I wonder how it would
> work with SAX/DOM?

The Docuverse DOM SDK (as well as any competitors that may eventually
appear, no doubt) already supports this.

> When processing large documents building entire trees is
> resource intensive and time consuming. Sometimes you only
> the power of tree navigation stuff for sub-parts of the
> source document.

This is difficult with the DOM, because every Node must have
a pointer to the root (Document) Node.

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