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.
-Chipp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry Judd Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Revolution and XML >On 20/11/01 10:19 am, Ben Rubinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'd love to see some decent XML parsing capabilities built into Rev. >>> I can see many half-baked and time consuming DIY attempts otherwise. >> >> Yep - I'm just about to start a half-baked and time consuming DIY attempt >> today! >> >> Is anyone else/has anyone else put much time into thinking about this? I'd >> be interested in discussing what others think is a decent architecture and >> syntax (or perhaps this belongs on the xtalks list?) > >It does, and improvements to make this easier would be an interesting debate >to have over on that list. (At present you can do this fine with the >scripting language though.) 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. Personally I think this is a job for an external - unfortunately I have neither the time or capacity (in which case the time is irrelevant) to write one. Cheers, Terry... > >Kevin > >Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> >Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! >Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr Terry Judd Lecturer in Instructional Design / Multimedia Developer Biomedical Multimedia Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 03 9344 0187 Fax: 03 9344 4998 ___________________________________________________________________________
