Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> FWIW, here's the XML parser I wrote and have been using for many years now:
> 
>    http://softdevelcoop.org/software/xml_automaton
> 
> (I'll publish the documentation and examples soon. I have it here 
> somewhere...)
> 

Let me be picky, it is a tokenizer of straightforward simplicity
for text which has some form of XML-like markup in it.
As such, it can be very useful in the construction of an XML-parser.
However, it is not an XML parser, a defined term. (You wouldn't
want to say that a Pascal fragment recognizer is an Ada compiler. ;-)

No offence intended, I'm saying this because people should not be
made believe that XML is just text interspersed with tags, which
is way off. This belief has lead to production of low quality data
streams, and to expensive fixing activities.

Georg