VOTable alternative? Mapping Rich Data to DBMSs

[Mark Taylor]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Guy Rixon wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Norman Gray wrote:
> >
> > Firstly, `a library that provides XML-like features' sounds heavyweight,
> > but you can avoid that.  The application or library which reads the binary
> > data and applies the crumpling map can very straightforwardly emit the
> > results as a SAX stream, and thus be plugged into any preexisting XML
> > application at all, including one supporting all the XPath and XSLT
> > you like.  You've probably thought of this already.
> 
> Hadn't thought of this, but it's a good idea, at least for some cases.  Might
> need a second version that emits a DOM to work with some XML tools.

Once you've got a SAX stream, you can use standard XML machinery 
to turn it into a DOM.  Most DOM-building libraries sit on top of
a SAX parser in any case.

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Mark Taylor    Starlink Programmer     Physics,  Bristol University, UK
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