Re: VOTable alternative?

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:34:21 +0000 (GMT)

> It depends on exactly how your SOAP processor works - however I'm not
> surprised if they most/all use DOM-like approaches, which will indeed
> fall foul of the problems you're talking about.

Yup, indeed.

> My SOAP's a bit rusty, I'm not sure how easy/difficult it would be to
> implement a SOAP processor which doesn't do this.

SOAP::Lite sit ontop of XML::Parser which sits ontop of expat. This is a stream-oriented parser. It's not really been an issue for me, but its inherently event based and you can avoid this parsing problem.

Al.

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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
Received on 2004-01-20Z18:34:56