From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2001-11-16T21:50:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25419] Re: XML support in the standard lib;whatexactly?

From: "David Alan Black" <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
> I'm looking at it a little differently, though for some of the same
> reasons you've brought up.  If the core library is supposed to be the
> foundation on which to build, then perhaps there should be, for
> example, a Ruby version of the SAX interface, perhaps along with a
> parser that implements it.  That way, future (SAX, in this example)
> parser writers would have their work planted in the standard
> distribution.

I agree totally.  That's what I meant by "streaming parser".  Any XML API
needs both a streaming (SAX) parser and a tree API that is built using the
streaming parser, so that applications can trade off speed/space efficiency
vs. programming convenience.

Cheers,
            Nat.