Re: [xml-dev] Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (wasRe: [xml-dev] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))

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• Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (wasRe: [xml-dev] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
• From: Karl Waclawek <karl@...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:17:58 -0500
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Daniela Florescu wrote:

> Anyway, I believe that people shouldn't try to hand code their 
> applications using low level
> APIs like SAX or STAX,

Why?

  but use a higher level language like XSLT or
> XQuery, and trust the
> XQuery/XSLT implementors that they'll  do a good job to minimize memory 
> consumption.

When you write XSLT, why is that not "hand-coded"?

> That's *their* job, not  *yours* as users.

What if I am a programmer, not some XSLT savvy "user"?
And how many non-programmers can do XSLT at a practical level?

Karl

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