Jose wrote:
On 11/1/05, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> wrote:
* The Implementation uses existing libraries (libxml2, to be specific), since writing a XML DOM library requires substantial efford.
Do you plan to support event-based parsing (SAX-like) ?
That's a good question. My initial proposal a couple of years ago had a SAX API. However, SAX has a number of shortcomings that make it hard or inapropriate to use (e.g., no namespaces !). A better API that still follows the cursor-style approach from SAX, is the XMLReader. It uses a pull model instead of push, i.e. there are no callbacks, but instead the application advances the reader's internal cursor to the next 'token'. See http://xmlsoft.org/xmlreader.html for a comparison to SAX. If there is enough interest I could add a boost::xml::reader API, though dom and reader are completely independent, as far as the API itself is concerned. Regards, Stefan