Re: XML generator

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

I've been tinkering with building a DOM in Ada & the last time I checked the
description of Level 1 for a document, there wasn't a "Write out this
document in XML text to a file or stream..." operation. Basically, you,
yourself, can walk the DOM tree & get back the data (often in its original
text form - although you may have to deal with normalization) and write your
own file that way. This may help prevent the errors Wes seemed to be
concerned about, but it may not eliminate them if your tree-walk isn't
correct.

The DOM spec was pretty lame with respect to how stuff gets into or out of
the DOM. IMHO, they *could* have specified some interfaces to parse XML
sources for input and reproduce valid XML as output. Of course, having it
specified (in a so-called "Language Neutral" way - "Language Neutral" as
long as your language is C++ or Java.) doesn't mean that all implementors
are going to give it to you or that its going to work correctly. It just
seems like they left some big, gaping holes in the spec.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
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"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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>
> I'm not expert but this seems true for SAX. With the
> DOM model in memory you have a set of methods to
> walk on the tree and get various information for each
> node.
>