The benefits of XML are many, at least as a format for exchanging data
between applications.
On the flipside, for use within an application I find it hard to beat the
speed and convenience of using MC's custom properties. MC's interpreter is
fast, but not as fast as it's compiled code for getting and setting
properties. And with multiple property sets within a rich object hierarchy,
one can implement complex hierarchical data structures quite easily.
But always looking to improve XML speed for when it's needed, I've been
using the offset function for parsing XML but can't help but think there's a
faster method.
I haven't spent much time running various alternatives through my
benchmarking tool, MetaBench (downloadable for free from
<ftp://ftp.fourthworld.com/MetaCard/4W_MetaBench.mc.sit.hqx>) -- have any of
you come up with faster means of reliably parsing XML than using offset?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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