From: <ms...@oz...> - 2003-03-17 20:59:04
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Brian wrote: > Oren, I swear I did not prompt Mike! ;) It's been something I've been feeling for a couple months. >> "parser"/"emitter" (parse = decode; emit = give out), nor do the words >> have any natural affinity to the stages they go from or to. > > Applications actually will want to Parse and Emit directly. This is > known as serial or streaming access; like XML SAX. Does XML SAX actually use the term emit(ter)? "Parser" makes sense, but I usually hear its opposite called "writer". Emitting is what the sun does when it throws off rays; it just throws them out without any concern for the context or prettying it up with whitespace. |