My friends Don and Sam
I’ve spent all my time lately immersed in Open XML. Makes your skin itchy after a while, all those tags and attributes.
Anyway, there’s these two guys: Don and Sam.
Don, he likes order in the universe. He thinks in terms of the big picture: where is everything, who is everyone, go there and do this to that, you know the type. Controlling. In charge.
Sam, on the other hand, he’s a free spirit. “Just tell me what to watch for, and what to do if I see it.” Then he wanders freely around.
Funny thing is, for some tasks Don has the best approach, and for other tasks Sam does. And it’s sometimes surprisingly hard to predict whether Don or Sam will do the best with a givent task. Sometimes you just have to try each of them and see who does a better job.
Don is the DOM API for programming with XML documents, of course. And Sam’s the SAX API.
Seriously. That’s how they compare and contrast.
OK, enough levity, back to Open XML …
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