From: msergeant@... (Matt Sergeant) Date: 2002-02-06T19:01:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby + XML Proposal Sean Russell wrote in message news:<3c6040f9_2@spamkiller.newsgroups.com>... > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > 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. Right. I didn't want to make it out to be a bad thing. The DOM generally sucks (at least it does if you don't have XPath access to the tree). SAX is good stuff though, and if you build the passed node structure cleanly enough you make transitioning to a tree API based on those nodes trivial. Matt.