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You missed the point. After you've agreed on XML, you still have to agree on how to represent a list. You can use existing libraries to parse the XML, but you
by sah 18y ago
You missed the point. After you've agreed on XML, you still have to agree on how to represent a list. You can use existing libraries to parse the XML, but you still have to write a parser to transform the resulting DOM into a list.
Plus, given that the availability of good XML parsers is one of the primary advantages claimed for XML, can anyone name some XML parsers that aren't ridiculously slow? Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I always seem to find that my own code to parse ad-hoc formats goes 10x faster than, e.g., expat parsing XML.
- trezor 18y agoYou missed the point. After you've agreed on XML, you still have to agree on how to represent a list. No I didn't. Because that's exactly what the guy in the OP said. Agree on a XML schema for the data. After you've done that, writing some simple Xpath to get your data is done in minutes. The only times my XML code is 100% DOM is when I need to make things from scratch or do XML data manipulation.