XML Parser APIs: Tree-Based and Event-Based
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- W3C recommended. Widely implemented, Tree-Based. Hierarchy of nodes. Loads entire document into memory (MSXML).
DOM Level 2.
- Candidate recommendation. Adds namespace support, traversal, stylesheets, events, triggers.
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- Open-source, XML-DEV, not W3C. Event-based, fires events as it reads document, need not load entire document into memory. Good for single-pass processing. Xerces, XML4C, Sun Project X (Crimson).
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