Thanks for the extra info, Ian.
I was quite enthusiastic about the DOM and willing to take the time to study it. But I'm finding it to be bloated and cumbersome. The C version of Xerces made it particularly onerous, since it lacks any way to actually get XML out of a DOM doc. This huge problem just gives me a bad attitude, since I don't see how version 1 of the DOM made it out the door without a spec for this crucial function.
At least Java has made it possible to use the DOM. It's that simple. I couldn't do anything useful in a reasonable amount of time with the C version. With Java, I have a functioning architecture to send and receive XML to and from a server.
I think the DOM has gone way overboard and missed the simple functions that would have made it practical.
Maybe version 3 will address this situation. But somehow I expect the solutions it provides to be layered in a stack of inscrutable handlers and helper classes.
Regards, Gavin
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