[XML-SIG] Re: [reportlab-users] The fastest XML parser around

[Kevin Jacobs]

Congrats on the new XML parser!

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Andy Robinson wrote:
> pyRXP constructs a tree of tuples in memory with a single API call; the tree
> is easy to navigate in standard Python code and can be wrapped up with
> DOM-like 'lazy accessor' nodules.

Why bother with lazy accessors?  If you are willing to consider using some
of the new Python 2.2 features, you can get all the speed and efficiency of
tuples with a true DOM interface.  Also, is it fair to make comparisons with
other parsers, since it doesn't look like RXPpy computes tag sets to answer
queries like getElementsByTagName or getElementById efficiently?

-Kevin

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