[MTOS-dev] XML parsing

[Timothy Appnel]

I just want to be clear (again) because I think this keeps getting
lost -- I am not suggesting pure perl is the way to go and anything
compiled (high-performance) is not. I am suggesting (actually highly
recommending) that there should be *an option* to use what fits your
situation and that MT implements a consistent strategy for
implementing XML-based services that supports that. I'm also pretty
sure implementing an XML::Any framework is not the thing to do either
-- its not like there is a shortage of things to do. <tim/>

On 3/10/08, David Jacobs <djacobs at apperceptive.com> wrote:
> In our experience Expat is hard and installing the rest of the XML::*
>  is pretty easy. And I believe (but I may be wrong) that libxml2/Expat
>  is a solution that will outperform pure perl. This is important becaue
>  eventually our work will be more XML than HTML (if it's not alread).
>
>  In short, I think that we should require more things if that means
>  better performance. I may be totally wrong!
>
>  David
>
>
>
>  On 3/10/08, Timothy Appnel <tim at appnel.com> wrote:
>  > On 3/7/08, Byrne Reese <byrne at sixapart.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  > I remember pushing hard for this as well especially because WordPress WXR
>  >  >  files can become quite larger and a DOM parser requires you to parse the
>  >  >  whole document in memory before you can even access its contents.
>  >
>  >
>  > When you know you are definitely working with a smallish document then
>  >  the DOM is fine. Personally I think the DOM is too fine-grain and
>  >  verbose, but that is probably because I'm used to Perl and its
>  >  shorthands and regex goodness. (This is probably why I prefer XPath
>  >  and to a certain extent XML::Simple.)
>  >
>  >  So where does this leave us in this discussion?
>  >
>  >
>  >  <tim/>
>  >
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Timothy Appnel
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