[XML-SIG] Does anyone do DOM navigation anymore?

[Chris Irish]

Derek Fountain wrote:

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>So it occurs to me to ask on the SIG list: do people still use the original 
>DOM style navigation? When is it preferable to XPATH? Why, in short, is the 
>whole "document hopping" idea not deprecated?!
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This may be a little late, but I try to stay away from both SAX & DOM 
whenever possible.  I too have found XPATH to be the easiest/fastest 
parser I've come across.  When I write some GUI apps that need to do a 
lot of XML parsing I find SAX to be a pain in the butt and DOM will slow 
down my programs quite alot.  Especially if I need to parse one XML file 
to get info to find or lookup some other XML file.  Maybe it's just me 
but when someone uses a program I've written I don't want them to have 
to sit there wondering if the app froze or something else.  If anyone 
hasen't given XPATH a look/try I recommend it highly.  Chris

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