Re: C++ or IDL definitions for SAX

Michael Kay (M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:46:29 +0100


>Tyler Baker writes:
>
> > I am not so sure a CORBA IDL definition of SAX would be so useful
> > anyways unless you developed some efficient method of multiplexing
> > the SAX events that get sent over the network.
>
>It seems like a fairly simple thing to manage, because the
>dependencies are mostly one-way -- the driver could deliver events in
>chunks of 100 (or 1,000, or whatever

I decided after some experiments that the most efficient way to marshall and
unmarshall a stream of SAX events (both in programmer effort and run-time
performance) was to send the XML document and re-parse it at the other end.

Mike Kay