At 4:19 PM -0700 8/21/02, Mark S Lowe wrote: >I've now spend the entire day playing with simple Perl examples using XML >Parsers, both in an OO manner and with flat parsers, and every indication is >that XML is just too slow in Perl. Even reading a 1k file into memory using >XML::Xpath takes an entire second before a node lookup can be done. > >Does this performance sound right? I have only the simplest needs for
Not at all. I use XML::Simple (which uses XML::Parser) to parse upwards of hundreds of XML files at one time in my AmphetaDesk: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ -- Morbus Iff ( i am the horrible hogglewart ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Tech: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 - articles and weblog icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
