C++ or IDL definitions for SAX

Ron Bourret (david@megginson.com)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:42:20 -0400 (EDT)


RJA@dip.co.uk writes:

> I'm currently looking into SAX and was wondering if anybody had any
> C++ or IDL definitions for SAX I could have ?

Various people have offered to work on them, but none has yet
appeared. It should be simple to build a fairly-good SAX driver on
top of EXPAT.

> On a slightly different note, are there are better alternatives to
> SAX for a simple event based API ?

There may well be technically-superior event-based APIs for your
particular work; the greatest advantage of SAX is simply that it's
widely implemented, and thus benefits from the basic law of networking
(the usefulness of a network is the square of its number of users).

That said, the advantage does not yet extend to C++, since I know of
no SAX implementations there.

All the best,

David

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