XML question, DOM or SAX?

Harvey Thomas hst at empolis.co.uk
Fri Oct 18 11:51:27 EDT 2002


Markus von Ehr wrote:
> 
> Hi Gustavo,
> 
> no, I don't have rgb values, inside one spec I have about 1000
> values representing spectral lines.
> I don't want to enclose every value inside something like
> <red>
> </red>
> the efficiency would be very bad...
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> sismex01 at hebmex.com schrieb:
> > 
> > > From: Markus von Ehr [mailto:markus.vonehr at ipm.fhg.de]
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 1.
> > > I want to save one or more spectras in a XML file.
> > > The program shall be able to read this file into my own
> > > data object structure, too.
> > > The data can be displayed or altered.
> > > After all the data has to be saved again to XML.
> > >
> > > Shall I use SAX or DOM?
> > >
> > > 2.
> > > One file can contain one or more spectra.
> > > Can the structure be like that?
> > > <spec>
> > >  0.1
> > >  0.2
> > >  0.14
> > > </spec>
> > > <spec>
> > >  0.2
> > >  0.3
> > >  0.11
> > > </spec>
> > > <spec>
> > >  0.14
> > >  0.17
> > >  0.12
> > > </spec>
> > >
> > > or is it impossible to enclose all values from one spectra within
> > > the <spec> quotation?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any hints,
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> > 
> > I suppose that the number triad is r,g,b values; but without any
> > markup it's impossible to know.
> > 
> > One you've read a spec, you'd have to split on whitespace, and
> > then convert to numbers; your application, internally, has to know
> > in what order the values are (rgb, ycm, hsv, etc), else it can't
> > tell them apart.
> > 
> > I'd rather use something a bit more verbose, but impossible to
> > confuse or musunderstand; either encode in attributes:
> > 
> >     <spec red="0.1" green="0.2" blue="0.14" />
> >     <spec red="0.2" green="0.3" blue="0.11" />
> >     <spec red="0.14" green="0.17" blue="0.12" />
> > 
> > or, encode in nested tags:
> > 
> >     <spec>
> >       <red>0.1</red>
> >       <green>0.2</green>
> >       <blue>0.14</blue>
> >     </spec>
> >     <spec>
> >       <red>0.2</red>
> >       <green>0.3</green>
> >       <blue>0.11</blue>
> >     </spec>
> >     <spec>
> >       <red>0.14</red>
> >       <green>0.17</green>
> >       <blue>0.12</blue>
> >     </spec>
> > 
> > You can also add an "encoding" tag, to indicate which
> > tags can be found inside:
> > 
> >     <spec encoding="rgb"> .... </spec>
> >     <spec encoding="cmyk"> .... </spec>
> > 
> > etc.
> > 
> > Anyway, that's just my opinion; hope this helps.
> > 
> > good luck :-)
> > 
> > -gustavo
> -- 

I think you might have to give us a bit more information about what you want to store.
Note that an XML file must have only one root element. From the example you gave you
could store your data as follows:
<spectra>
<spectrum values="0.1 0.2 0.14"/>
<spectrum values="0.2 0.3 0.11"/> 
<spectrum values="0.14 0.17 0.12"/>
</spectra>


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