From: Bryan Murphy <bryan@...>
Date: 2002-02-06T06:29:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + XML Proposal

Sean Russell wrote:

>>What you have essentially created here is SAX plus Namespace dispatch.
>>This is exactly how AxKit's XSP module works - taglibs register
>>themselves with a particular namespace, and the namespace dispatcher
>>sends all tags with that namespace to the appropriate handler.
>>
>
>Hmmm... this is a good idea.
>
And that's more or less how the next version of the RPF framework works, 
though I'm extracting this part out into a module seperate from the web 
stuff (no sense in having two completely distinct things so tightly 
integrated.

>>Now there seems to be some people here who don't want standard APIs.
>>
>
>Well, it would be more accurate to say that there are some people here who 
>don't want *bad* standard APIs, which DOM is.  I've ignored the SAX issue 
>because I never use stream parsing myself, and things I don't use (and 
>aren't bugs) get pushed down to the bottom of the todo list.
>

Heh, perfectly understandable.  Anyway, David announced his XML::SAX2 
api the other day on the list and that more or less does everything I've 
been crabbing about, so I'm currently reworking the RPF to use XML::SAX2 
as it's foundation as opposed to my stuff.  That's slowed me down a bit 
in getting the next version out, but at least it's stopped me from 
harassing you guys! ;)  It's a nice module, does everything SAX2 I 
wanted Ruby to do so I'm content (for now muhahahahah)

Bryan