24 May
2004
24 May
'04
8:25 a.m.
At 23:31 21/05/04 +0100, MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:
The standard representation should be a tree datatype
Why not separate the parser and tree builder, have the parser stream the tags out, and define the tag stream as the interface to a DOM builder...
[...]
make sense?
Makes sense to me, and if I were starting from scratch this approach has some appeal. I don't especially like your correspondent's idea of a "standard representation" in the library, because details are likely to change over time (cf. the introduction of XML namespaces). #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact