Re: The road ahead

On 25/09/2012 16:08, Andrew Welch wrote:
> On 25 September 2012 13:06, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Aim towards a comparison of benchmarks for XML parsers v
>> MicroXML parsers (both with MicroXML documents, of course)?
>> In the hope that a by-product of simplicity could be improved
>> performance and lower memory requirements? (Besides less
>> pain for parser writers and users.)
>
> To put things into a perspective, this is an example of some xml I see
> now and again (the most recent being today):
>
> <aa><![CDATA[1.12345]]></aa>
> <bb><![CDATA[12312]]></bb>
> <cc><![CDATA[0.345]]></cc>
>
> ...yep, every value is serialized in a cdata section.  This is usually
> because it was constructed as a string and written to disk, and a lone
> & or < caused a well-formedness error, and the quick-fix is to add the
> cdata sections to the string construction.
>
> Hopefully its this sort of thing microxml will help fix...
>
>
>

Currently it would seem that micro-xml's main contribution to that sort 
of thing is to remove the "quick fix"

David




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