XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve Loughran wrote:

> Agreed. A better solution would be for XML parsers to be able to
> handle arbitrary large incoming data by letting you provide a factory
> for storing big values that could be used to stream to a cache. It
> would be more general purpose.

Actually that sounds pretty special purpose to me. There just aren't 
that many reasonable use cases that have such large values in the first 
place. A lot of the whole XOP/MTOM/SOAP mess seems to derive from the 
principle that everything should be stored in an XML document. I don't 
hold to that principle. There are some things that just don't belong in 
XML, and large binary files like JPEGs and MPEGs are some of them. You'd 
be better off storing both the XML and the binary data in some sort of 
archive format like a zip rather than trying to treat it as one thing. 
This is is essentially what OpenOffice does, and it works pretty well 
without unnecessarily contorting the nature of XML and XML APIs.

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