On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:46 PM, karl arder wrote:
Thanks Norm and Lance for the info.
I a little confused about Apple being unable to correctly build/use
an XML file. Isn't XML a standard? I'm also confused that the two
solutions I've been pointed to do not use RB's dictionary class -
but scans the block of memory the data was dumped into using
instr's. Is this due to Apple's odd flavor of XML or is this the
best/fastest way?
Parsing an XML file can be quite memory and computational intensive
as it requires finding block starts and ends. However, if you know
characteristics of the XML file and can get all the information you
need to by simply scanning the file once (instr/instrb), it will
generally be faster.
However, the XML classes in REALbasic are based on commonly used open-
source libraries, so the speed should match most XML parsers.
HTH,
Jon
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