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On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:48:33 -0600, Brian Aberle <xmlboss@live.com> wrote: | In December of 1998 the largest HMO committed to using XML for all data | transport in the implementation of a database that is shared between | hospitals. Interesting. Was this discussed on the (old?) HL7-SGML mailing list? (There used to an archive at www.mcis.duke.edu, but that has gone 404 for a while now, and the new www.hl7.org site is a labyrinth.) | The only parser I can remember from back then was Xpat. You probably mean James Clark's expat. Good choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expat_%28library%29 | It was the fastest tokenizer in the performance tests we ran. We | wanted to make so many enhancements [...] Out of curiosity, such as? | In 2 weeks we had a home grown functioning tokenizer in a layer that | we could easily swap out with Xpat. It just got better over time [...] Have you tried benchmarking against other alternatives? http://pugixml.org/benchmark/ | Just a little historic note about how all this came to be. A new parsing technique would be interesting. Format tweaks in XML aren't. Really.
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