Jose wrote:
On 11/4/05, Jez Higgins <jez@jezuk.co.uk> wrote:
In other cases, and I accept that I might be unusual in this, SAX is the right thing to use.
For large XML files, an event or libxml2 reader api is the only option Which other cases do refer to ?
I was referring to an event API over a reader API. Filtering, for example, adding or removing something from a document, is straightforward with SAX. I was being slightly sarcastic. There are a number of people who find SAX, or SAX-like, interfaces difficult to use, and advocate "better" alternatives. I'm not one of them. Similarly there are a number of people who regard the DOM as impossibly complex. There was an earlier poster who more-or-less described the DOM in Java as dead. That's not my experience, and it's not my opinion. It's a long winded way of saying there is no one-true-way to process XML, no one way is universally better than any other. Jez