Re: XML-SAX Event-Handler loop.

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

dmosley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ...
> So, what I did instead was for every "*XML_START_ELEMENT" event, I would 
> take the <tag> name
> and execute an XML-INTO to get the tag's value. 
>
> So, in that sense, avoiding all other events, just made sense.
>
> It's doing what I want it to do, I was just hoping to make it a bit more 
> efficient.

David, it's not going to be at all efficient if you are using XML-INTO 
to reparse the XML document every time your XML-SAX finds a new element. 
 Rather than having the one XML-SAX loop, you have your XML-SAX loop 
plus a number of hidden XML-INTO loops.

XML-INTO has to parse the XML document starting at the beginning to find 
the bit that it's interested in.  XML-INTO does stop when it has found 
what it's looking for but on average you will be parsing half the 
document for each XML-INTO that looks for the value of a specific tag.

I have to repeat Scott's question: Why not just use XML-INTO for the 
entire XML document?  Then you will only parse the XML document once and 
when XML-INTO is done, you will have all the information you need.