[XML-SIG] Reconsidering the DOM AP

[Ken MacLeod]

Sean McGrath <sean@digitome.com> writes:

> Alternatively we could be more proactive than this. Why don't we ask
> the community for half a dozen XML processing "use cases"? I hereby
> offer to implement them using Pyxie so that the implementation can
> be compared with implementations using other approaches.
> 
> I think the code samples (plus the discussion that would ensue)
> would make a valuable contribution to the XML-SIG materials.

Excellent idea!

Some sources of use cases include several of the tutorial articles on
xml.com, which often especially beg for a simpler approach!

Here's a list of articles we can cull examples from (note some of the
freebies there for Pyxie ;-):

  <http://www.xml.com/pub/norm/part1/getstart1.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/norm/part2/getstart2.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/26/rax/index.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/26/rax/pythonimp.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/05/feature/index.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/12/xml99/python.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/11/cplus/index.html>
  <http://www.xml.com/pub/98/09/xml-perl.html>

Note: the emphasis is on what's happing _inside_ Python using the
Pyxie API, what happens using PYX outside of Python is assumed to be
the same in either case.

  -- Ken