[XML-SIG] FileReader?

Eric Brunson brunson@level3.net
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:09:13 -0600


* Martin v. Loewis (martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de) [010411 02:34]:
> > Only that most of the example code I came across relied on the
> > FileReader object, even code posted to this mailing list as recently
> > as 29 Jan 2001.
> 
> In case you've wondered what to use instead: xml.dom.ext.reader is the
> package that supports reading streams (strings, files, URLs) into DOM
> trees; that gives you a 4DOM tree. Alternatively, you can use
> xml.dom.minidom.parse to read a file into a minidom tree.
> 
> Eventually, the DOM level 3 interfaces should be implemented to allow
> "portable" access to a DOM parser.

Oh, excellent.  Thanks for the pointer.  :-)

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