matthew.pocock: > On Saturday 26 January 2008, Keith Fahlgren wrote: > > Perhaps a more modern approach would be StAX[1]-like rather than SAX-like? > > In either case, streaming, non-DOM. > > > > I am concerned by the number of people expressing willingness to abandon > > namespace support, but perhaps I'm being too much of a purist.... > > > Keith > > StAX is fine for a very wide range of applications, including web services. > In > the web-service domain, namespaces and entity expansion and xsd are not > optional extras, but these can be layered on top of StAX rather than a more > DOM-like structure. > > Just as a reality check, we regularly stream xml messages between web > services > in Java where the message bodies are many gig in size, using StAX, and > neither the client or server need anything other than a constant memory > overhead, as the portions of the message are generated and consumed in a > streaming manner. It would be very nice if we could do similar things in > haskell.
Lazy evaluation FTW. :) -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe