[Haskell-cafe] Re: Lazy XML handling

[MR K P SCHUPKE]

>The standard representation should be a tree datatype

Why not separate the parser and tree builder, have the parser stream the
tags out, and define the tag stream as the interface to a DOM builder...

	parse :: String -> [(XmlTreeDepth,XmlElement)]

	buildDOM :: [(XmlTreeDepth,XmlElement)] -> DOM

Thats how I would do it anyway. I appreciate the comments about efficency, I
was really talking about simplicity. The algorithms on the steam can be
quite simple, and hence avoid bugs.

I would still want to dispense with the DOM, which if you think about
the system thus:

	Parser -> [stream] -> DomBuilder -> DOM  - operations on DOM

You can push the operations on the dom via a structural transformation
back through the DomBuilder, such that they operate directly on the
stream... 

In other words the user composes the functions as if they are operating
on a real DOM... only the DOM is never constructed and the operations
are applied direct to the stream output of the parser.

make sense?

Keean.