The author is talking using parser generators for parsing XML. Well duh. That's huge overkill. There are so many decent libraries out there that it makes no s

The author is talking using parser generators for parsing XML. Well duh. That's huge overkill. There are so many decent libraries out there that it makes no sense to roll your own. If a DOM based parser is too cumbersome (say giant files), use SAX and grab what you want on the fly. Even if I were dealing with high volumes, like crawler output, I would still go with SAX until I figured out where my bottlenecks were.