Well, maybe it isn't in conflict, but I failed to mention another requirement - the application that I'm referring to also has to run on Linux. Perhaps that still doesn't represent a problem - could Mono be workable? I haven't worked with it enough to know.
On 11/24/06, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you explain how wrapping a C/C# DOM implementation and using that from Perl is in conflict with using Perl's regex engine? John On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote: > For one particular application, I need the speed of Perl's regex engine and > I have not been able to match it in C# or even with limited attempts using > C++ and Boost's regex library. So, regardless of feature availability on > other platforms, I'm going to continue pursuing DOM & JS functionality in > Perl extending WWW::Mechanize. > > That said, I do a lot of *other* work in C# and what you suggest would be > useful. If you already have something in the works (you mentioned > publishing some code), I'd be interested in learning more. > > On 11/23/06, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote: >> >> > Would an "easier" (yet still monumental) starting point be to tackle the >> DOM >> > implementation independent of a JS engine? >> [...] >> > This seems like a great open source project - it's way too much to >> handle >> > for most individual developers, but I think could be tackled with a >> > moderately organized team of folks with a good design laid out in >> advance. >> [...] >> >> So, having pooh-poohed Christopher's proposal, I'm going to make a very >> similar proposal of my own. >> >> Give me some slack, I have the excuse of actually having put in some >> implementation effort on this, and published the code :-) (but not in >> Perl). And I'm asking with a view to writing some more code myself >> (albeit only a slim chance of that happening). >> >> So, my question / semi-serious proposal is: is anybody here interested in >> collaborating in writing a portable HTML DOM library and DOM builder in a >> language *other* than Perl, with the intent of wrapping it for Perl and >> other languages (Python is my own interest)? >> >> I'm afraid I'm not interested in Perl 6's cross-language support, though. >> If it were me working on it, it would probably have to be C, C++ or C# (or >> possibly Java, or something weirder like Caml). Cross-language use is one >> reason for my thinking about doing it in one of those languages. Memory >> usage and execution speed is another. I lean towards C or C#. >> >> >> John >> >> >
