From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T11:17:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25135] Re: REXML behavior change RFC

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> In one way I like it, its slightly more orthogonal.
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> In another way I worry about large documents. It would mean that the API
> itself specifies that the engine has to slurp the whole document before it
> can give you the first element to handle.
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> With XML being targeted as the way unrelated databases exchange data, we
> can look to see some very large streams of data going by...

In such cases, a SAX parser is a better choice; trap data as it goes by, rather than waiting until the entire document is read.


James

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