On Thursday, September 08, 2011 21:38:43 Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2011-09-08 15:22, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:16:40 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > >> The Tango XML parser doesn't read from a file, it takes the input as a > >> string. The parser isn't affected by I/O at all. > > > > So you have to read the entire file before sending it to the parser? > > > > Isn't that a bit limited? What if I have a 50MB file, I have to read it > > into a continuous memory block first? > > > > -Steve > > I'm just telling how Tango currently works, not how the XML module in > Phobos should work. But I guess it might be somewhat limited. 50MB isn't > that big to read into memory? > > I think it would be nice to be able to do both. If you read the whole > file before sending it to the parser you would know it doesn't perform > any I/O operations.
I expect that the the new std.xml will work on ranges of dchar (certainly, if it doesn't it should) such that it could be used on a string that's the entire file or on a stream over the file. If it's tied to reading in the whole file first, it's a design flaw. But I don't know what the current state of the new std.xml is. I don't think that I've seen Tomek around here recently. - Jonathan M Davis
