XML parser timeline and complexity

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>Boy.  When I looked at doing a generic XML parser, I looked at a few ways
>of doing it.  Mostly, since I would be doing it from processing, I figured
>on "reproducing" the structure of a DTD, for instance, in a lookup table's
>records, and specifying a relation between tags (ie., parent names would be
>included, and there would be an attribute field YESNO, etc.).
...
>Okay, time for some Tylenol.  :)  My brain hurts.

It sounds like you're trying to reinvent expat, SAX and DOM for FilePro :-).

Tools like the python xmlrpc libraries hide all the XML from the
programmer, permitting very simple function calls.  The SAX and DOM
libraries make it reasonably easy to read/write XML documents, and there
are both verifying and non-verifying parsers that are fairly easy to use.

Writing external XML import/export routines that are calleable from FilePro
would seem a much more reasonable approach.

Bill
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