From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T07:54:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Libxml SAX parser?

> > I haven't completed the SAX handlers, there's just some
> > infrastructure for it.  I prefer the text reader interface over
> > SAX, but I haven't done either since I haven't had a need to
> > support SAX.  DOM + XPath has satisfied all of my needs to date.
> > patches welcome though.  :) Nag me enough about it, and I'll get
> > to it, but it's not that high on my list of things to work on.
>
> No, I won't nag you about it. If you don't need it, you don't need
> it.  It's just surprising how little choice there is if you need to
> grab xml-documents from an input stream.

Agreed.

> As far as I can see, libxml2 doesn't support this at all, so a ruby
> wrapper, even with SAX would do me no good.

As a matter of fact, it would, and libxml2's arguably the fastest SAX
parser out there.  It's DOM is constructed via a set of SAX callbacks.

http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/index.html

Unless you're parsing documents that are hundreds of MB in size,
libxml2's pretty efficient.  -sc

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Sean Chittenden