Ah memories: parsing XML fast is what lead me to work for Apple. I gave a talk about it (based on https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~nigelh/Publications/IDEAL02.pdf ht

Ah memories: parsing XML fast is what lead me to work for Apple. I gave a talk about it (based on https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~nigelh/Publications/IDEAL02.pdf https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~nigelh/Publications/IDEAL02.pdf: Expeditious XML processing, Yeow, Horspool, Levy) to the Vancouver XML group. That led me to be approached by the chair of the XML Vancover group who happened also to be the director of a Vancouver software company. They hired me and about a year later the company was acquired by Apple. And so that part of my adventure began. (The fundamental idea of the parser was to use ideas taken from Warren's Abstract Machine for Prolog)