Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] DomParser and SaxParser

[Edd D. <ed...@us...>]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:33, Christophe de VIENNE wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I think in a soon future we should reimplement the DomParser on top of th=
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> ones it could save a LOT of memory...
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> Any comments ?
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Makes a lot of sense.=20

The current DOM implementation is a bit disappointing in that it doesn't
provide namespace information. I presume DOM Core level 2 would be a
good target to head for.

It would be most convenient to do it on top of a SAX2 implementation in
order to get the namespace information, rather than redoing the
namespace handling purely for the DOM layer.  Of course, a SAX2 API
would make me very happy.

-- Edd