Re: [bdbxml] input/output event API proposal

I would agree that for a library like DB XML it's more important to  
have something very close to the native workings than to provide  
standard interfaces (as you mention).

My main concern about getting docs/elements as strings, then re- 
parsing them into someplace else is performance and efficiency (and  
elegance, I suppose), scalability being the prime concern. So being  
close to native dbxml really knocks that concern on the head.

Also, pull interface for reading is more efficient than a SAX-style  
push, at this lower level.

That having been said, where I'd first like to use this is as a SAX  
source & sink for Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 product (which is a real  
work of art, I take it EVERYONE is using it!). So for Java it's  
really a question of producing a SAX converter, which for the basic  
case looks pretty simple from what you've documented.

Jacoby



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