[jdom-interest] Lazy parsing

[Jon Baer]

When you say "keep information about where the real XML tag exist in the XML file" does
this give it a location inside the file say for nested elements?

I am currently working on a project with the requirements like:

<foo>This is some <bar/> text here</foo>

<bar/> is actually a database call (not using processing instructions), and I need to
keep track of "This is some" and "text here".  Does your parser work in this manner?

- Jon

"Spitz,Ayal" wrote:

> Jon -
>
> The idea with my parser is that it's lightweight and fast. The Tag objects
> keep information about where the real XML tag exist in the XML file, the
> name of the tag, a parent, and children. It does not keep attributes.
>
> The general idea with my XML parser is that it works quickly to give the
> user a bare minimum of detail about the XML document so that they can then
> return and parse only those segments of the tree that they might think are
> important. I haven't worked out all the details, or all the use cases, but
> I wanted to see if there was more interest before I went on with the parser.
>
> - AYAL
>
> At 09:51 AM 4/16/2001 -0400, Jon Baer wrote:
> >Id be interested in it, but what does the Tag object contain that would
> >not be in the
> >Element class?
> >
> >Id like to see there be a "basic" lightweight parser to be in JDOM
> >(instead of Xerces
> >as the default), so if your parser can construct a JDOM Document then Id be
> >interested in it.  Can I ask what other people are using (thats free and
> >lightweight)
> >when they use SAXBuilder(parser)?
> >
> >- Jon
> >
> >"Spitz,Ayal" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi -
> > >
> > > I'm a new user of JDOM, and have been using it only for a short while. A
> > > co-worker, that pointed JDOM out to me, mentioned that there was an
> > > interest in a lazy parser. The rough description that I got was that there
> > > was a need for a quick parser that would be able to go threw an XML
> > > document and extract the bare essentials of the XML document, building a
> > > very light tree along the way, This tree would then be used later on to go
> > > back into the XML document and perform a more extensive parse of part of
> > > the tree.
> > >
> > > It just so happens that I have such a parser. It takes one pass threw a XML
> > > document and returns a tree of light weight Tag objects. A Tag object
> > > contains the number of bytes to the beginning and end of each XML tag, the
> > > name of the tag, and the namespace which it lives in.
> > >
> > > Is there still an interest in such code? I would be more then happy to
> > > either give this code, to the right people to integrate into JDOM, or work
> > > with someone to integrate it in.
> > >
> > > Any interest? - AYAL
> > >
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