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Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Nils Kilden-Pedersen <nilskp AT gmail.com>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:09:30 -0400

Nils Kilden-Pedersen wrote:

I would recommend standard DOM. It's much easier to code with than SAX and
is part of the standard JDK.

I don't really believe that. I find SAX a lot easier to use for many use cases than DOM. You just need to learn a couple of design patterns and data structures and SAX becomes really easy. The issue is that many programmers are much more comfortable with trees and iterators than stacks and observers; but I don;t think SAX is fundamentally more difficult than DOM; in fact quite the opposite. Even once you understand trees and iterators there's still a huge number of nasty problems in DOM to bite you whereas SAX is quite clean.

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[XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Christian Vest Hansen, 10/20/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Elliotte Harold, 10/20/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Nils Kilden-Pedersen, 10/20/2006
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Elliotte Harold, 10/20/2006
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Nils Kilden-Pedersen, 10/20/2006
      - Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Michael Kay, 10/20/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, New, Cecil (GE Infra, US), 10/20/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Wolfgang Hoschek, 10/20/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Mustard, Sandy, 10/20/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Reading a config file, Christian Vest Hansen, 10/20/2006