From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F3CBDB4 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:08:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net (pih-relay05.plus.net [212.159.14.132]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6K88JOG032286 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:08:20 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IBnX8-00016V-Ml for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:08:19 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Fast XML parser Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:01:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <28fa90930707181458p26eac6e6y7b45018b7c91ca65@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <28fa90930707181458p26eac6e6y7b45018b7c91ca65@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707200801.23613.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46A06D73.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; parser:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ...,:98 frog:98 wrote:01 parsing:01 caml-list:01 parse:02 string:02 bytes:03 library:03 luca:04 stream:04 On Wednesday 18 July 2007 22:58:35 Luca de Alfaro wrote: > I am interested in parsing Wiki markup language that has a few tags, like > 
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, ...,. > These tags are sparse, meaning that the ratio of number of tags / number of > bytes is low. > I would like, given a string (or a stream) with such tags, to parse it as > fast as possible. Efficiency is a primary consideration, and so is > simplicity of the implementation. > Do you have any advice about the library I should be using? > Thanks, I would just use XML-Light. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. OCaml for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/?e