Re: [xml-dev] Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))

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Oleg Tkachenko <>
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Alan Gutierrez <>
Date
2004-12-28T10:04:18Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
Alan Gutierrez wrote:

>     Java is not assembler. XSLT can be mind-boggling complex.
> 
>     It is function programming, which is a leap. It isn't the
>     easiest way to learn functional programming either.

Well, you might forgot, but SAX isn't the easiest and natural way of XML 
processing either (and that's why Microsoft went with pull-based 
XmlReader alternative in .NET instead).

The whole push paradigm (be it SAX or push style programming in XSLT) is 
sort of mind-boggling untill you get it.
-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
http://blog.tkachenko.com
Multiconn Technologies, Israel