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Don’t forget the whole DOM vs SAX processing mess. Big documents would routinely kill parsers by running out of Memory. XSLT was cool. Too bad XSL and Apache-F
by wombatpm 9mo ago
Don’t forget the whole DOM vs SAX processing mess. Big documents would routinely kill parsers by running out of Memory.
XSLT was cool. Too bad XSL and Apache-FOP never took off.
- jjkaczor 9mo agoIf-I-Recall-Correctly, it was typically a 10x memory load to open an XML file in a DOM parser. Which could get really ugly, really fast when you were dealing with many files.
- downsplat 9mo agoIt still works well in the appropriate settings. LibreOffice (nee OpenOffice) uses ODF, an XML format, for its document files, and it has been working nicely enough for a long time.
- nine_k 9mo agoMS Office's own XSLX and DOCX formats are trees of XML files, zipped.