[ANNC] Native-Dylan xml-parser lib

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: [ANNC] Native-Dylan xml-parser lib
• From: dauclair@hotmail.com (Douglas M. Auclair)
• Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: http://groups.google.com/
• Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:13447

The native-Dylan xml-parser was collaborative effort of Chris Double, 
Andreas Bogk, and Douglas Auclair from the Gwydion Dylan maintainers.  It is 
mostly W3C-compliant (including proper handling of ENTITY and DOCTYPE 
definition tags) and allows programmer control over transformations but does 
not validate documents.  It parses hamlet.xml in 3.20-3.25 seconds on 
Functional Developer.  The test machine was Windows NT 4.0 running on 733 
PIII with 128MB RAM.  The xml-parser library and supporting libraries 
(notably Meta by David Lichteblau) are available in source-code form from 
http://berlin.ccc.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gd/examples/.

By way of comparison,  Computists' Research Software (CRS) Digest 
(http://www.computists.com) announced a Common Lisp xml-parser (XMLP) that 
parses hamlet.xml "in 1.7-1.8 seconds on ACL6, and on Lispworks it takes 
anywhere from 2.6 to 5.2 seconds, depending on GC behavior."  XMLP uses 
expat as a back-end.  "The test machine has Redhat 7 running on a 733MHz 
PIII with 256MB RAM." 

Neither development team had an aggressive optimization goal for their 
xml-parsers. 

Sincerely, 
Douglas M. Auclair

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