- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:38:27 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: Cliff Hudson <chronos@lightmail.com>, www-validator@w3.org
> Right now we do minimal parsing of this output -- merely pick out what > little we need -- but rearranging the attributes would require an > intelligent parse of this and the generation of a complex datastructure of > some sort to hold the info. This would eat an undetermined amount of CPU > cycles and memory compared to today, but would also provide benefits in > other areas of the code. Exactly what the tradeoff becomes isn't clear to > me without looking more closely at the problem (anyone?). It may be that > the net effect will be improved resource use _and_ cleaner code enabling > more features, but it could also go the other way. As I said in my response to the OP, the alternative, cleaner and much more efficient approach to this would be to hack the C++ code in SP. The learning curve for hacking SP is much steeper than the alternative basic Perl hackery, but there is now a development community doing that ( <URL:http://openjade.sourceforge.net/> ), as well as my own Code Valet which is a very specific hack to web-ify SP. -- Nick Kew
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