From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-03-09T22:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12326] Re: [ANN] NQXML v0.2.2

Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org> writes:

> Jim Menard wrote:
> > 
> > ... (Now to come up with a clever name...)
> 
> In the XML world we call your kind of parsing "Pull parsing". It's pretty
> widely accepted as a cool way to work.

I've decide to call it `StreamingParser'. It outputs a stream of entities,
after all.

> Of course the other point would be that we should start working now on an
> actual SAX API too, and make sure that Ruby SAX implementations are
> interoperable. As I said before - please don't follow the Java bindings -
> they are so, umm, Java. Ruby can do it so much nicer using property sets.

As I said elsewhere, someone else is welcome to build a SAX parser on top
of NQXML::Tokenizer.

Jim
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