From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T05:44:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25071] Re: XML support in the standard lib; what	exactly?

On 01/11/13 3:10 PM, "Sean Russell" <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:

> Bob Hutchison wrote:
> 
>> There are some clever java parsers doing this kind of thing too (I think
>> the first XML parser did something along these lines, but I'm not
>> certain). But this isn't what I was getting at. Again, it is only my
>> opinion, but an event based parser should be a very high priority for
>> Ruby. Without it certain things cannot be done (or rather done remotely
>> efficiently). Specifically, the tool I'm working on (similar to an XML
>> data binding) would be seriously compromised.
> 
> AFAIK, all of the XML parsers available have event-based parsing.  NQXML
> allows you to pass a block which is called, in which you can do a
> case...end statement to handle the event.  REXML requires you to pass it a
> listener, on which event methods are called (start_tag(),
> processing_instruction(), etc.).  XMLParser has a similar mechanism.  Just
> FYI.
> 

Thanks for clarifying this. Just to be sure though, they don't require the
whole document to be in memory first do they?