After Parrot, what next?

Paul Prescod paulp at ActiveState.com
Tue Apr 17 16:25:08 EDT 2001


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Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>   Who lied to you and told you SAX was a good idea?

I was involved (in an admiteedly minor way) with the original
specification of SAX. I've also been using SAX-like parsers for about
eight years now. In the early days it was common to laugh at people who
tried DOM-like parsers because who had that much RAM to spare? SAX-like
programming languages used to sell for thousands of dollars and people
built really complicated multimedia applications with them. i.e. Encarta

In 90% of all XML applications a DOM is merely a convenient luxury. They
could be done with SAX instead. The only exceptions are applications
that do heavy multi-node addressing and you don't need that to define a
programming language. In fact I've never seen an XML-based programming
language that did addressing into the source documents.
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