XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 3:39 PM -0700 9/29/02, O'Brien-Strain, Eamonn wrote:


> Sparta was originally designed to run on very small devices like 
> PDAs, watches, electronic jewelry, and small appliances.  In that 
> context it seems reasonable to trade-off code-size and performance 
> against some error checking for conditions that do not effect the 
> resulting DOM model.

The XMLPULL folks make this argument too. I don't buy it. Piccolo is 
fully conformant, modulo bugs, and it's only 114K, and could probably 
be smaller if it didn't include support for external entities. If 
that's too big for a micro-environment, then that environment's too 
small for XML.
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