Re: L4X
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- Subject: Re: L4X
- From: "Jay Carlson" <nop@...>
- Date: 2008年1月10日 10:43:42 -0800
On Jan 9, 2008 5:51 AM, Fabien <
fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe it's worth adding a couple of details about what misses in the current pattern matching system, to make it a good XML handling tool.
The current system works great to manipulate trees that are entirely in RAM, and whose structure is known precisely. The most common use-case is to manipulate metalua Abstract Syntax Trees, although it's prefectly suitable for any other tree-like structure. When you manipulate XML, there are two key differences:
- the data you're working with are potentially huge or even infinite streams. You want to be able to load data in RAM lazily, only when it's actually required.
--
Jay
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