[Xml-bin] An attempt to sort things out

[Al Snell]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Stefan Zier wrote:

> > But you're right, we're splitting hairs :-)
> 
> ;) So where in the model would you make the cut and drop in the binary XML
> stuff instead of the "regular" stuff?

Well, the higher up you go the more benefits you can reap from the higher
layer interface, but the more you have to change in the code that uses
those interfaces to adapt to the new model.

My original plan was to replace the very lowest level, and provide a SAX
interface, to speed acceptance, but SDW's plan of optimising XPath with
indexing seems to indicate that a DOM-level interface might be a better
idea... more work, but much greater rewards.

ABS

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