[JDEV] Java XML Parsers

[Al Sutton]

Daniel,

I think you may be a little confused. I think you'll find that there are
specs for SAX and DOM parsers for XML, but XML itself is (or at least
was originally) purely a data representation format, and as such didn't
include the detail of how to parse it's contents. I'm not claiming my
parser is SAX or DOM compliant, but mearly a library capable of parsing
XML.

I fully accept it doesn't support processing directives (such as the
<?xml element which is used to detail encoding), and that enforcing all
tags are pushed into lower case isn't ideal (and is something that is
optional on version I currently am working on), but it seems to fit a
need many people have for a small simple parser. 

Myself and others have used my parser in a number of products which
handle the jabber protocol and thought it may be of use to Matt.

Al.

On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 10:15, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:38:56AM +0000, Al Sutton wrote:
> > I'm biased, but I prefer the one I wrote. It's available from
> > http://www.alsutton.com/ under the My Software link.
> > 
> > It's designed to be small, and isn't fully featured, but does enough to
> 
>   Then it's probably not an XML parser. 
>     tagName = data.substring(0,spaceIdx).toLowerCase();
> for example is very suspicious (XML Names are case sensitive),
> it doesn't seems to look at the XML Declaration to check encodings etc...
> In a nutshell, though it may be able to extract informations from a well
> formed XML document it doesn't look like an XML parser and you should
> not advertize it as such, sorry for being pedantic but it's not good.
> 
>   XML defines relatively precisely the processing model of the
> parser including error detection and signalling. The goal is to have
> interoperable implementations. Deviation from the spec makes thing
> harder for the users, for example a Jabber client based on your parser
> will not react similary to a client based on an XML parser.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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