On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When dealing with ground tags generically (like data.xml does), i.e. the > mapped-to structures add no information over the ground tags, I'd say it > would be still pretty easy to create a reader, which uses optimized > structures for content-only, or attribute-only tags and the like. Even > common things like space-separated (class-) lists in attribute tags, ... > Dynamic runtimes can also optimize for object shapes "automagically". For > reference, google optimization tips for v8 > Of course, none of this will decide for you that ordering of your child > tags is irrelevant and that it can be used to facilitate O(1) hash-lookup. > Thus it _is_ unfortunate that there exists no accepted standard for > encoding arbitrary associative structures in XML, because it pushes you > towards app-specific representations. >
Out-of-band schemas/assumptions or automagic inference are incidental complexity to deal with the fact that XML cannot directly represent the concepts that algorithms want to deal in. This is the point I was making originally. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
