[XML-SIG] Pull Parsing

[Paul Prescod]

Juergen Hermann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 May 2000 09:36:56 -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> >A very simple API is forming in my head:
> 
> I would not return DOM nodes, but PYX-like tupels (node-type, node-name, node-
> value). You wanted it simple! :)

Some nodes have no meaningful value, some have no meaningful name and
some have "extra" information like attributes and processing instruction
targets. Overall I don't think that it is simpler.

> You can then put higher levels of abstraction above that, like RAX or your
> simple-DOM interface.

Unfortunately we have to be careful about the number of levels of
abstraction we build in. The push->pull abstraction would already suck
some speed...
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