On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Well, i have clearly mentioned my assumptions - i.e, when you treat > > the XML as a 'string' and do not want to retrieve anything else in a > > 'structured manner'. > > > If the data is structured, it makes sense to exploit that structure and > use a proper solution. > yes, and xml parsing is a bad way when you are not interested in the xml structure.. > I find it highly unlikely that for a large program sufferring from low > performance, replacing an XML parser with a regexp based parser will > significantly improve peformance. > Sigh! Again, guys, i am referring to regexp when all you need is some number within a tag! If the content of that tag was text, i would have never suggested this solution. HTH. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
