on 29/11/01 4:28 AM, Terry Judd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fine?? I don't doubt you can do it but I do question whether a generic > scripted solution is workable. Some Director dude that is more experienced > than I (and I'm no neophyte) has written a fairly robust xml parser in lingo > but give it a file with a large number of tags that is more that a few K in > size to chew on and it really chugs.
on 29/11/01 6:43 AM, Chipp Walters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It would seem with regular expressions and compiled scripts it could be > significantly faster than Director. I don't think director is a very good > string manimulator in general. At least the last time I looked, it was > pretty laborious, more so than HyperCard, SuperCard. Just my two cents. The one I've written (very crude at the moment - I've concentrated on making the API work first, then going back to refine the parser) seems perfectly speedy. One of my test documents is about 350K, 5000 lines, 8000 elements - seems plenty fast enough. My parsing is crude, if I make it more robust it may get slower - but then I bet someone with more Rev knowledge than me could optimise it anyway (I haven't used regex). I think Rev/MC is a superb text manipulating engine. I think Director is a lousy one. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution