At 10:54 AM -0800 3/18/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
A perl5-native parser can be rigged up fairly easily, but it's
*numbingly* slow compared to the C version. I mean, 20-50 times
slower, by my guess. The speed issue when importing XML-like data
(which we do *very frequently*) is a constant stick
--- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > To me, this says that there's no real commitment to "doing XML".
> What
> > there is seems to be a recognition that XML format is regular and
> > comprehensible to others, so wr
2003-03-18T13:54:12 Michael Lazzaro:
> A perl5-native parser can be rigged up fairly easily, but it's
> *numbingly* slow compared to the C version. I mean, 20-50 times
> slower, by my guess.
That's the nature of the beast; XML requires a lexer which knows
about more than just two or so character
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Austin Hastings wrote:
To me, this says that there's no real commitment to "doing XML". What
there is seems to be a recognition that XML format is regular and
comprehensible to others, so writing "XML-like" files becomes popular.
Yep. Which makes things ev
Austin Hastings wrote:
FWIW, I've had to try to rewrite Microsoft's VCPROJ and SLN format
files(*), which look a whole lot like XML. Sadly, if you change the
order of independent entities in the file, Microsoft's internal parser
rejects the file. This despite the fact that MS already has an XML
par
--- Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Morin) writes:
> > I have commented before on the face that Perl doesn't have "Power
> Tools"
> > (read, idioms) that are well suited for handling XML. Turns out
> that
> > Tim Bray agrees.
>
> Tim Bray also says he gives up a
Simon Cozens wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Morin) writes:
I have commented before on the face that Perl doesn't have "Power Tools"
(read, idioms) that are well suited for handling XML. Turns out that
Tim Bray agrees.
Tim Bray also says he gives up and uses regexes as a quick and dirty work
aroun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Morin) writes:
> I have commented before on the face that Perl doesn't have "Power Tools"
> (read, idioms) that are well suited for handling XML. Turns out that
> Tim Bray agrees.
Tim Bray also says he gives up and uses regexes as a quick and dirty work
around. So maybe th
Rich Morin wrote:
I have commented before on the face that Perl doesn't have "Power Tools"
(read, idioms) that are well suited for handling XML. Turns out that
Tim Bray agrees.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
You may want to look at the perl-xml thread called "Tim Bray
I have commented before on the face that Perl doesn't have "Power Tools"
(read, idioms) that are well suited for handling XML. Turns out that
Tim Bray agrees.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
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