On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Johnson wrote:
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.
They do
I ended up doing a really fast parse using regex's though
It could read a 50,000 song iTunes XML library in about 2 seconds
which you won't get with anything else
I'm just not at liberty to share it
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