Re: lazy xml teaser

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

John Belmonte wrote:

> I understand how this could save memory in a Lua table represent ion 
> of an XML document.  The "parsing more source document as necessary" 
> is arguable.  I've found it best to run an XML document through a 
> validator like relax-ng before using it, relieving my program from the 
> task of ad-hoc validation.  Considering this, the XML often has 
> already been parsed before your program gets to it.


True if your XML is a 'document'. But often it is a 'stream' (like in 
the Jabber case), so one needs to use SAX like approaches. For this I 
think the lazynode approach would be very nice.
-Martin