XML help needed

[Kragen Sitaker]

Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> You don't specify what you mean by "accessing", most likely, you will
> need a tree representation of the document, i.e. the DOM. The only
> reason *not* to use the DOM would be if the document is too large to
> fit into memory.

Well, there might be other reasons, too.  You might want to use less
memory or CPU time than a DOM-based application would, for example,
for reasons other than the document not fitting into memory.