Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Nick Roberts wrote:
> "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote:
> 
>>Nick Roberts wrote:
>>
>>>Would anyone be interested in an Ada package that parsed XML (including
>>>DTDs and entities, with namespace support), but which was written with
>>>an interface that is (hopefully) better suited to Ada than DOM or SAX?
>>
>>I for one am interested. What kind of Ada-ish interface have you in mind?
> 
> It is really quite similar to DOM, but simplified and made more Ada-ish.

As one intent on exploiting the XML market with the aid of Ada, I wish 
that the developers interested in XML would work on adding to the 
Ada-XML development tool chest, rather than coming up with new ways to 
do something that's already been done.

Look, I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do, it's just that IMHO Ada 
developers are sparse, and those interested in XML even more so, so by 
doubling or tripling up doing something that's already done, it takes 
away from adding new capabilities.  Maybe AdaCore's XML/Ada isn't as 
Ada-ish as it could be, but for the most part does DOM and SAX parsing 
just fine (plus, you get the source code), and it's out there now.  If 
the XML/Ada interface is too thin, write a thick binding and release 
that, then move on to something else.

I looked at putting together an XML parser at one time, then woke up and 
realized that, duh, one already existed, so my time would be better 
spent leveraging off of it, hence XPath In Ada (XIA).

I'm just suggesting is all...don't get caught up in Not-Invented-Here 
when there's are whole fields of functionality that need Ada bindings or 
implementations.

Marc A. Criley
McKae Technologies
www.mckae.com