Re: [xml-dev] What is XML For?

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Re: [xml-dev] What is XML For?
 wrote:
> I'll disagree with *all* of the syntax being handled for you.  Markup is 
> handled so-so on the sax parsers - but content is handled fairly 
> stupidly - many many extra callbacks for little bits of text seems to be 
> the rule - forcing the developer to do some relatively fancy text 
> aggregation and some of his own event detection based on history.
> 
> At least that's been my experience.

In this case, SAX reproduces the behaviour of parsers described in the 
XML spec. However, you can always use a filter that will guarantee that 
all characters between two pieces of markup are passed in a single event.

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Robin Berjon <>
Research Engineer, Expway
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