Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:18:14 -0400
loic@ceic.com wrote:
> The most efficient XML parser I know is expat
> http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html
> it is widely used and well debugged.
At this point, it's the defacto standard. I believe even the W3 libwww
uses it or refers to it.
> I think it would be an error to write a custom parser since a very
> good one already exists. I'm not sure if trying to get a working DOM
> library is worthwhile, it depends on the amount of work involved.
Actually, as I read this, I remembered another good reason for having a
real XML parser around. Don't we want to eventually parse XML documents
for searching? ;-)
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