[XML-SIG] dom building, sax, and namespaces

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:25:52AM -0700, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Daniel Veillard:
> >   Considering that the XML spec very clearly says that an
> >XML parser MUST stop delivering content as soon as a well
> >formedness error is found in a document, and that the
> >probability of growing a corruption on a
> >very large file becomes not neglectable, using XML to store huge 
> >data on a single instance is IMHO brain-dead.
> 
> The data files are themselves machine generated.  The
> parser I have that converts the flat-file to a marked-up
> version also does verification of the format.  So it meets
> the XML criterion.
> 
> What I'm providing is a migration mechanism for people to
> keep their existing practice (large flat files) but start
> taking advantage of the benefits of newer technologies.  Yes,
> there's a change the input file is corrupt.  I can detect
> that.  But it's at least better than what people do now,
> where there is little detection of corruption.

  Okay, still one really wonders if XML is really the 
right serialization format for such data. Clearly both
the XPath data model and the DOM one for such document
will grow huge unless you manage to use a database to
generate the needed parts on the fly.
  It's still not clear to me that XML/XSLT are really the
right tools for this kind of work, you really have to push the
envelopp (like restricting yourself to a streamable subset of
XSLT).

Daniel

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