Re: KHTML in GNUStep?

[Helge Hess]

Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> It certainly looks interesting and might indeed be a starting point -
> however, I'm personally not particularly fond of SAX, for several
> reasons. One, it was primarily designed for writing XML parsers only,
> which isn't a big problem if that's all you want/need - BUT (and that's
> reason two) - SAX1 is NOT entirely DOM compliant, and SAX2 differs
> significantly from SAX1, even if it will be somewhat backward
> compatible. So, as far as I know, only if/when the DOM3 specs will be
> out there there's chance SAX and DOM will "merge". And third, SAX
> takes documents as "streams" instead of a tree, as defined in DOM, which
> means it's much harder to do forward/backward references to objects.

I can't follow you. Why should one *merge* SAX and DOM ? SAX is a parser 
interface and DOM is an in-memory tree structure ? In skyrix-xml SAX is 
used to build a DOM structure from a wide selection of backend parsers.

SAX is an IMHO useful parser abstraction, comparable to an EOAdaptor. 
Like you seldom access an EOAdaptor directly in EOF, you usually use DOM 
(or an object tree built using my SaxObjectDecoder ;-) to access XML 
files as the "end-user", not SAX.

regards,
  Helge
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