Other exemplars

r.lph50 Joined: 11/27/06 Posts: 21

Posted: 02/08/07 06:15:19 Tim Bray's Lark, which is essentially a finite state machine (since XML has a finite set of transitions). He blogged a little bit of its history and details. Also there is XOM a dual streaming (like StaX or something) and tree (like DOM) API. Perhaps the design principles are of interest.

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kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 02/09/07 02:44:09 yeah, those design principles are pretty darned solid. I disagree with his point(s) about call-chaining, but the rest is cool :)
grignaak Joined: 05/25/07 Posts: 5	Posted: 06/27/07 06:40:41 I know its not XML, but I've really enjoyed the interface to htmlparser for Java. But perhaps its too bloated. Mainly I liked the interface for the filters and visitors.