RE: Barracuda Performance Questions

At 04:13 PM 3/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Assume that I will do something in Barracuda. I am
>sure that I will not go b). It makes too much
>unnecessary function calls between two data trees. It
>only can be a temporary solution. For a), a new dom
>implemetation has to be introduced in order to store
>squeezed data or deal with some text files as you
>mentioned. The dom operations should skip this part
>automatically. So it is unnecessary to use my data
>struture. From the current framework, I don't see
>anyway to use my data struture natually.


You could write up your own components to deal with the non-w3c dom data 
structure.  Like Christian said, there are some default things in Barracuda 
which are implemented so that the framework is immediately useful to 
people.  However, there is no reason that alternative implementations of 
component models couldn't be built.

BTW, have you taken a look at XOM?  I haven't read much about it, but it 
was created (pretty recently) by the XML guru himself Elliotte Rusty 
Harold.  Might be interesting to see if it solves some of the problems you 
see with the w3c dom.  Maybe you can advise him of your "squeezing" 
concepts....or maybe he's already implemented the same ideas?

http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/

There is a presentation on XOM here...
http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/whatswrong/


Jake