----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: XML everything
>
> 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.
Concept: what if MC could automatically convert an XML document to an
array or set of arrays? And convert arrays to XML?
Would there be a way to set up the new "split" and "combine" commands
to parse/unparse an XML document into/out of an array or set of
arrays? That would be about as cool as it gets, no?
Phil Davis
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
> Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the
Web
>
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