Eric Gunnerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:

> My vote would be "Yes".

+1.

> My experience with using Regex on XML is that it's a pain to
> get things parsed apart. I think it's much much easier to use
> XmlDocument and then traverse the nodes to get what you want.

I don't even think he needs to use an XmlDocument, if performance is the
issue and he just needs to burn through a document start to finish, he
should just go with an XmlTextReader.

> As for performance, I'm not sure. Regex may be faster, but
> the XML parser is pretty quick.

I don't have any data to prove this next assertion, but I would be willing
to be the XmlTextReader is faster than the regex. It's highly specialized
and only needs to understand XMLs parsing rules.

Later,
Drew

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