If you don't need a true XML parser, you could probably use Parser.HTML. I don't think it get very much faster then that, of course, depending on what you do.

/ Mirar

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2003-02-28 16:49: Subject: Parser.XML - The slow, the fat and the hungry :)

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Hi everybody,

Is there any alternative to Parser.XML, accessible from Pike? Modules etc? Or are there any plans to rewrite it in C, possibly using something like libxml2?

Perhaps someone may ask - what is wrong with Parser.XML?.. Well, it takes approximaly 20M RAM and 6 seconds to parse (only) 1M XML file (it contains approx. 80000 tags). This is a way too much, IMHO (libxml2 takes approx. 0.5s and only 4M RAM for same file - while this is not perfect too but more acceptable).

Any ideas? Suggestions? Comments? Flames? :)

Regards, /Al

/ Brevbäraren

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Alexander Demenshin scribbled:

Hi everybody,

Is there any alternative to Parser.XML, accessible from Pike? Modules etc? Or are there any plans to rewrite it in C, possibly using something like libxml2?

check out the pexts from the caudium.net CVS. I have put an XML2 glue there recently. It's not nearly finished and I'm changing the callback API right now, but it's usable.

marek