Cart
|
[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Web Services/SOA (was RE: XML 2004 weblog items?
 John, I've never directly been involved at parsing xml in this way. Don't mind using XPath and perl, but most of the stuff that I do is with custom libraries in delphi of all languages (to do with gui writing mainly) Starting of thinking there might be some merit to the binary xml as some spare parts pricelists, when they get to 40,000 items, start to slow things down a bit to load into memory at one time. Most of the time I just tweak something here or there and it comes good again. But I can see some advantages in binary xml. Searching through documents for tags in text is not that efficient compared to running down a binary linked list. Anybody that really understands parsing theory I respect like a god. Some peoples brains are just wired that way. Not mine. I still would would put money on the yacc mathematical expression generating code as being black magic. There's no logical way that sort of stuff can work. To me, the amount of computer interaction at the moment in the real world is very minimal. One connection at a time per trading partner then turn off. Our textbooks all say "TCP/IP connections are resource intensive". So what do we do, get out of our browser and get onto our p2p download client and have some nice feelings of multiple connections. The accounting systems no matter what the brochures say are still mainly souped up printing presses with a choice of squirt the ink or burn it in to the paper with lasers. and in businesses at the small and medium sized level, they haven't even heard of xml. Wouldn't even have the slightest idea what it is. I think there is a rosy future ahead.... Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@r...>: > david.lyon@c... scripsit: > > Paul, > > > > Interesting. at least in perl it's a respectable language. > > > > Don't seem to mind the idea of parsing stuff in perl. > > > > but this: > > > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue87/ramankutty.html > > > > that looks like a lake of fire... > > LR(1) parsing is a very standard technique, but it has problems, notably that > changes to the grammar *here* may cause unexpected yacc-compile-time errors > *there*. PEG parsers are much superior, though they require more space > (potentially O(N) space where N is the length of the input, though not > typically): see http://www.cs.nyu.edu/rgrimm/xtc/rats.html#overview . > > -- > "You know, you haven't stopped talking John Cowan > since I came here. You must have been http://www.reutershealth.com > vaccinated with a phonograph needle." jcowan@r... > --Rufus T. Firefly http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. 
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! 
Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|
|||||||||
