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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: parsing an apache-like conf-file
From:       "Paul J. Lucas" <pauljlucas () mac ! com>
Date:       2001-01-31 21:29:47
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> I've never heard anyone complain about it being slow. I'm not saying
> XML::Tree isn't faster, just that I've never heard that complaint about
> XML::Simple, simply because people don't use it for parsing large files, just
> small config files.

	Or perhaps they don't need to handle hundreds of thousands of
	hits a day, i.e., on the scale of eBay.

> I guess maybe your measures are different to, erm, the rest of the internet's

	The benchmark I used is right on my web page.

> As for being more complex to use, I would say XML::Simple's popularity speaks
> for itself (especially when compared with say XML::DOM or Grove or even
> XPath).

	Or, until now, there wasn't something better.

	- Paul

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