On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:44:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Tim Hockin wrote:
So you end up with the mindset of, for example, "if it's text it's XML".
You have to parse everything as XML, when simple parsers would be tons
faster and simpler and smaller.
hehehe. One of the reasons why I like XML is that you don't have to keep cloning new parsers.
.... if you don't mind bloating your application:
% ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.a
4224 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4312536 Oct 19 21:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.a