I have two major applications that parse very complex XML that comes from an HTTP call. It was originally written in VFP7. I recently overhauled it using Python and call it using the run command. It runs seamlessly in my application.
One of the files is a tab delimited text file and the others are complex XML files with nested whatchamacallits. For example, there is a group of tags that describe a configuration for the groups of tags that follow it. There could be any number of "records" that follow the configuration. The "records" can also contain a different number of tags depending on the record type. It took a lot of work in VFP and was very slow. Python does this remarkably fast and the amount of code is significantly less because the parser is infinitely configurable. Python was fairly easy to learn because of the wealth of examples and help out there - especially Ed and Paul and others on the ProPython list. Learning the parser was not bad at all and in my opinion Python has more similarities with VFP than anything I have seen or used. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Alan Bourke wrote: > Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: >> 3. Would I be better off doing it in something other than VFP9? >> > Last time I was faced with some complex XML I used C#, VFP just could > not handle it. Python, Ruby, anything that is any way web-centric would > be able to handle it. > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
