[Tutor] More and more OT - Python/Java

[Max Noel]

On Jan 12, 2005, at 01:40, Liam Clarke wrote:

> So, you've got the XML like -
>
>
> <descript> You are standing in front of a stump. A path leads north. 
> </descript>
> <exits> N </exits>
>
> and you have a XSL that works like a CSS?
>
> descript  {font:arial, align:center}
> exits style:bolder
>
> Is that a good paraphrasing? How browser dependent would that be? Do
> most browsers support XML & XSL?

	Yup, that'd be the idea. IIRC most browsers support XML and XSL. (not 
sure, I'll have to check)

> PS
>
> What's SAX DOM? I know what a DOM is, but what's the SAX? I saw it in
> my Python docs when I was poking XMLParser. If/when I work with XML,
> would you recommend Python's standard modules for it?

	SAX is just another way of parsing XML. It's very sequential in 
nature, so it's not good if you need to re-access a previous node from 
the document, but since it doesn't load the entire document in memory 
(doesn't build a tree out of it), it uses less memory than DOM, and 
scales much better (obviously).

	I haven't tried Python's XML parsers yet, but I understand Python 
supports both SAX and DOM, so it should be okay...

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