Re: Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-06 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:27:39PM -0500, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Since my original implementation is still the fastest, and the newer > implementations do not improve the speed of the application, then I must > assume that the process is slow because of the XSLT transformations > themselves. Th

Re: Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-06 Thread William Wueppelmann
Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Since my original implementation is still the fastest, and the newer implementations do not improve the speed of the application, then I must assume that the process is slow because of the XSLT transformations themselves. These transformations are straight-forward: # tra

Re: Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Fourth, I tried both of these approaches plus my own, and timed them. I had to process 1.5 MB of data in nineteen files. Tiny. Ironically, my original code was the fastest at 96 seconds. Yikes! The XSLT implementation came in se

Re: Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
I wrote: > Can you suggest a fast, efficient way to use Perl to extract selected > data from an XML file?... First of all, thank you everyone who promptly replied to my query. Second, I was not quite clear in my question. Many people said I should write an XSLT style sheet to transform my XML do

Re: Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 03:54 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: To create my HTML files with rich meta data, I need to extract bits and pieces of information from the teiHeader of my originals. The snippet of code below illustrates how I am currently doing this with XML::LibXML: [...] The co

Re: Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-05 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:54:09PM -0500, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > The code works, but is really slow. Can you suggest a way to improve my code > or use some other technique for extracting things like author, title, and id > from my XML? It's slow because you're building a DOM for the entire doc

Extracting data from an XML file

2004-01-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Can you suggest a fast, efficient way to use Perl to extract selected data from an XML file? I am in the process of re-writing my Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. In this re-write I will be marking up items in the collection as TEI/XML files. These files will them become my archival copies of