I read either on this list or another that the author of HTML::Parser
was rewriting it to gain additional speed.
There may be a beta version somewhere you can try. Check CPAN.
cliff rayman
genwax.com
Alex Menendez wrote:
> hello, all
>
> I currently have developed a dynamic content engine in mod_perl that
> parses html files on the fly for
> proprietary xml tags then replaces these tag trees with db content.
>
> I initially tried to do this by subclassing HTML::Parser and over-riding
> the usual methods. However, this
> was painfully slow.....even after chunking the files line by line. I got
> better performance by writing my own module that specifically parsed the
> file for my tags. However, the performance is still not that great and
> my module is not exactly robust.
>
> any suggestions on making HTML::Parser work faster....or on another
> module that can parse XML within a tree of non xml compliant tags....ie
> HTML?
>
> -amen
