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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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
[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 these
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
--- 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 and uses
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
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 even
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
--- 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 writing
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
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