At 04:43 PM 3/10/00 -1000, Betty Harvey wrote:
>Do you mean recursion or hierarchy?
>
>Recursion:
> <Level>
> <Level>
> <Level></Level>
> </Level>
> </Level>
>
>Hierarchy:
>
> <Company>
> <Name></Name>
> <Address></Address>
> <Contact>
> <Name></Name>
> <Address></Address>
> </Contact>
> </Company>
>
>If you are talking about true recursion, I agree! If you are
>talking about hierarchy, I would not agree with a flat model.
Hierarchy makes sense, recursion doesn't. Recursion often causes more
memory to be used during a parse because information relating to an
element's extended family needs to be kept. Of course, a hierarchy can be
recursive, which is good for a DOM-based approach (finding the value of an
element in a logical order), but it is less useful to an event based parser.
-Matt MacKenzie
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Matthew MacKenzie
CTO/VP R&D
XML Global Technologies, Inc.
