Re: Switching between DOM and SAX
Don Park (donpark@quake.net)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:42:10 -0700
>> 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.
In PR3 of the Docuverse DOM SDK, there will be a couple of SAX event filters
for pruning the tree before it is converted into a DOM document. This
solves a good part of the very large document problems.
Don Park
Docuverse