[wsf-dev] wsf-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 3: Some Decision Making

[Cahill, Conor P]

> Asa Hardcastle wrote:
> > The predominant notion was that DOM over SAX was the 
> preferred choice 
> > for a number of reasons, so, as far as I'm concerned, DOM is the 
> > choice we are going with for the moment.
> 
> My only concern with requiring a DOM-based approach is that 
> it is likely not very efficient for a mobile phone or other 
> constrained-memory devices. That's only important, of course, 
> if you'd expect this library to be usable on a mobile phone 
> or other constrained-memory device ;) I would guess that this 
> code will be limited also to using J2SE APIs (ie.
> not J2ME-capable?)

I'm not sure it's a big issue if we are talking about relatively
small messages (several to 10K).  Certainly this could be an
issue for GB messages, but I think the phone would have a 
problem with that size even in binary.

Conor