Cocoon 2 Questions

[Ja...@ubsw.com]

     Hello,
     
     I am getting up to speed with Cocoon/Apache and XML/XSL.
     
     Re: Cocoon 2, just read it is scheduled for release by the End Of 2k.
     
     In reading the release notes on the site 
     http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/cocoon2.html 
     section Passive APIs vs. Active APIs, it sounds like somebody in my 
     position (beginner) should be learning to use SAX API (active) and not 
     the DOM API.
     
     1) Will the Rel. 2 SAX API make the DOM API obsolete?
     
     2) What are the inplications of using the SAX API with Rel. 1?  Is it 
     currently much slower?
     
     Rgds,
     J.A-O


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Re: Cocoon 2 Questions

[Giacomo Pati <Gi...@pwr.ch>]

James.Aggrey-Orleans@ubsw.com wrote:
> 
>      Hello,
> 
>      I am getting up to speed with Cocoon/Apache and XML/XSL.
> 
>      Re: Cocoon 2, just read it is scheduled for release by the End Of 2k.
> 
>      In reading the release notes on the site
>      http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/cocoon2.html
>      section Passive APIs vs. Active APIs, it sounds like somebody in my
>      position (beginner) should be learning to use SAX API (active) and not
>      the DOM API.

In fact both are relevant. But for C2 components SAX is the thing to
know (but knowing DOM too gives you a better understanding on both
technologies)

> 
>      1) Will the Rel. 2 SAX API make the DOM API obsolete?

No!

> 
>      2) What are the inplications of using the SAX API with Rel. 1?  Is it
>      currently much slower?

AFAIK, it doesn't have namespace support.

Giacomo

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