Re: ANN: DOMParser

Tyler Baker (tyler@infinet.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:03:58 -0400


John Cowan wrote:

> A preliminary version of DOMParser is now available at my XML page
> (http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML). DOMParser is a compliant SAX
> parser, except that its input comes from a DOM implementation
> rather than an InputSource. An additional method, parse(Document d),
> is introduced to parse DOM Document objects. The standard parse()
> methods throw errors. (Perhaps they should look for a real parser
> and a DOM implementation to try to create a DOM Document instead?)
>
> A demo program is also available, based on the SAX ByteStreamDemo
> and using the Docuverse DOM SDK as the DOM. Its output is identical
> to that of ByteStreamDemo using Aelfred 1.2 as the parser, except
> that it does not try to resolve a SystemId or set a Locator
> (Locators making no sense when there is no source text).

Wouldn't this be better titled as a DOM Builder and a DOM Writer?

Tyler