Hi, I am using PXP to parse the MathML2 DTD. This is a fairly large DTD, which even on a fast machine takes several seconds to parse. I am therefore looking at ways to serialise a parsed DTD, in a such a way that it can be reused by other processes.
Does PXP already offer primitives for (un)serialising DTDs? (I couldn't find any). Note that using Marshal is out of the question, because DTDs are stored as objects, and we all know that objects cannot be serialised across process boundaries. But are there alternative solutions I'm overlooking? On a more general but related note, I think we should start an OSP discussion about standardising serialisation methods. The rationale should be obvious. Myself, I am partial to Sexplib, since it is reasonably fast, very simple to use, human-readable, and future-proof. I reckon that bin-prot could also be considered, as long as at some point the binary format is "set in stone", or at least deserialisers are always backwards compatible. Any other opinions? Thanks for your time! Cheers, Dario Teixeira _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
