Hey, Ben... can you post your code? It would be a great one to "optimize" on the list (just like we did with the "Constraining Movement" thread)...
Just my $0.02, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Rubinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:49 AM Subject: [Use-revolution] Re: Revolution and XML > 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 > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution