On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Tod Harter wrote:
> It would be a really BIG advantage to be able to parse XML using a C > library, then manipulate the resulting DOM in perl, thats the big deal. That > would also allow you to do things like cache DOM trees in memory and pass > them around. You can SORT OF do that now, but to perl they are just big > chunks of unintelligible data. Sounds like GDOME will give programmers a lot > more flexibility in writing XML processors in perl. Previously if you wanted > to things like this you had to use a parser written in perl (SLOWWWWWW). But that's not actually true. We already have XML::LibXML, written by Matt himself. It uses GNOME's libxml, and does parse using that C library, and you can manipulate the resulting DOM in Perl. Plus you can cache DOM trees in memory (which AxKit and my own code does) and pass them around. So I'm basically wondering what GDOME has over LibXML. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
