[KLUG Members] Standard Regular Expressions (REs)

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:13:16 -0500


On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:12:30AM -0500, Vernon wrote:

> Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that some implimentations of
> Perl XML-RPC servers are very slow.  If I was not looking for a job,
> I'd be figuring out why.  Maybe someone could help me take a guess.

I read something about this.

A lot of programs create a DOM of an XML document when read. This means
they convert it into a full "index" first, then do things to it.
Apparently, some people are working to create serial tools for XML,
skipping that expensive first step.

Just a suggestion.

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