Ed Davies:
> David Tolpin wrote:
> >
> > StartTagOpen/StartTagClose+EndTag vs startElement/endElement
> >
> > ...
> >
> > At the same time, if the API is on the level of tags, I want to say the tag
> > is closed; in fact, I would prefer StartTagClose to be passed the tag's name
> > argument, same about endTag. It would help me write better programs.
>
> Perhaps StartStartTag or StartTagOpen or whatever can return an opaque
> element reference (could be a pointer to an internal structure or simply
> a nesting stack level count) which is then passed to StartTagClose and EndTag
> to allow early detection of mismatches. A bit more lightweight than
> passing the element name + namespace gubbins and maybe having to do
> string compares.
I don't think there is any performance penalty in just comparing the strings.
David
