"Jino Hyun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> � - What XML Programming Language is.
Dunno - a language with good libraries for XML parsing and validation,
perhaps? I'm using Haskell to take a bunch of HTML-pages, extract
data from them, manipulate it a bit, and generate a new HTML-page with
the results.
For this, it is necessary to build and manipulate huge trees,
something Haskell (like most functional languages) does very well.
The usual benefits, like flexible static typing and quickly developed,
correct programs also apply, of course. The few bugs that weren't
caught by the type checker, were quickly fixed when discovered.
Unfortunately, and I'm going to agree with graham here, the resulting
program uses a lot of memory (parsing about one meg of HTML, producing
about 200K of results makes my 128Mb machine suffer), and I get a
run-time error[1] if I feed it too much data.
-kzm
[1] Prelude.(!!) index too large. Sounds almost entirely, but not
quite, unlike out of memory. Anybody know?
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