wxXmlDocument

[Yuri Borsky]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> ÐÉÛÅÔ ×
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> There are two flavors of XML parsers available: Tree-based as you
> describe here, generally are based on the Document Object Model, or
> DOM. There are also event-based parsers, often, though not always,
> based on SAX; expat (which is used in wxWidgets internally and is
> part of the distribution) is an event based parser which isn't based
> on SAX. Some of the larger XML support libraries like Xerces and
> libxml2 provide both.

Thanks for the insight. Now I wonder why wxWidgets use event-based parser
internally but expose it tree-like :)

> Unless you have tight control over the format of the incoming
> documents, processing XML as plain text is a bad idea. The DTD or
> schema may insert additional content via entities and default
> attributes that plain text processing will not handle correctly.

That is true. However sometimes speed gain you get from raw text processing
makes it worth it - and yes, only when appropriate and only when you know
what you are doing:)