<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Every browser has DOM Parser / Serializer implementation. That's where jQuery shines.
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But the biggest problem with DOM parsing is that the whole XML file is loaded and parsed into a tree.</div><div class="gmail_extra">On the server side, we can have very big data, so DOM is not an option. We have to use SAX or XPath (I think EAX uses SAX).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">On the browser side, we are supposed to deal with small data, so DOM parsing is Ok.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">About v8, Gerald is working on that, and I think it will be a great move.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>