Re: Inefficient code in xml.el

2005-06-06 Thread Kevin Rodgers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, i get the point, but how an elisp-programmer should know this?! > > The manual says: > > - Function: match-data > This function returns a newly constructed list containing all the > information on what text the last search matched. Element zero is >

RE: Inefficient code in xml.el

2005-06-06 Thread klaus.berndl
Well, i get the point, but how an elisp-programmer should know this?! The manual says: - Function: match-data This function returns a newly constructed list containing all the information on what text the last search matched. Element zero is the position of the beginning of the m

Re: Inefficient code in xml.el

2005-06-06 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > I noticed that xml.el has several occurences of code like this: > > ((looking-at (concat " "\\)[ \t\n\r]*\\(" xml-entity-value-re > "\\)[ \t\n\r]*>")) > (let ((name (buffer-su