Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-cocoon-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 9756 invoked by uid 500); 9 May 2003 01:07:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 9741 invoked from network); 9 May 2003 01:07:15 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 9 May 2003 01:07:15 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DwKH-0003v8-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2003 03:05:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DwK0-0003r2-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2003 03:05:12 +0200 From: Stefano Mazzocchi Subject: Re: [ANN] XInclude processor for xml-commons Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 20:06:55 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <3EB72BC7.6090807@apache.org> <3EBAB60F.6030902@apache.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3EBAB60F.6030902@apache.org> Sender: news Cc: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N on 5/8/03 2:54 PM Andy Clark wrote: Andy, thanks for replying. This is very useful information for us. I did have a problem with SAX that you mentioned: attributes being read-only. I also think that an event that includes metadata capabilities might turn out to be *very* useful for us in the future. > Also, XNI fulfills a different need than SAX. XNI is > for building different kinds of parsers whereas SAX > is for communicating document information to the app. > XNI could also be used for this purpose but that is > not the primary goal. And we've never marketed XNI > that way. Do you see any technological disadvantage in replacing SAX with XNI? -- Stefano.