XML parsing besides SAX and DOM

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Thu Dec 13 14:45:16 EST 2001


On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Andrew Dalke wrote:
[...]
>   I've been doing XML processing of a record-oriented
> data set where in a record:
>
>   - the data isn't deep (pretty much flat)
>   - all the text is used from between the start and end tags
>   - the text is short (easily fits into memory)
>
> I developed another XML API to simplify this case, and I'm
> curious about other similar systems (eg, I may want to
> scrap my work).  I know about SAX and DOM and about RAX.
> What others are there?

XPath?  Very simple to use, though possibly too slow for some things.
4Suite has an implementation.


John




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