[webkit-dev] XMLReader Interface Patch & XML Prague 2011

[Alex Milowski]

I've just uploaded a patch for WebKit that provides event-oriented
parser for XML called XMLReader that is a variant of the behavior of
XMLHttpRequest but, instead of building a whole document DOM, it
delivers "XML Events" to an EventListener.  The implementation has
very low memory consumption characteristics and provides a great deal
of flexibility for designing receiving applications that accomplish
their XML tasks during the processing of the XML (e.g. data binding).

I am presenting this interface at XML Prague tomorrow (Sunday, March
27th) and I've put the paper up at:

   http://www.milowski.com/research/xmlreader/

The page is #57145:

   https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57145

I'm curious about any feedback you all might have.  I should have sent
this out earlier but I haven't had the time.  Even "gut feel" or
"immediate reactions" would be interesting.  Don't hold back...  :)

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics