[thelist] XML parsing the homemade way

[Nicole P]

My first question to you is why? Why does doing it by hand seem simpler?
Both ASP and PHP will offer you a very simple access to the XML data.

I mean, in PHP, all that is required is
xml_parse ($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp) );

well ok, a few more calls, but it's really simple.

I started playing with XML by using ASP, and that was simple too.

Nicole

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Fascia" <danfascia at totalise.co.uk>
>
> I have looked at some of the XML parsers available in various languages
and it would seem simpler for my project to create
> my own system as follows:
>
> 1) Open XML learning module as text file
> 2) Parse file using string handling regexpressions of PHP or
ASP/Javascript
> 3) Fire parsed data into one of 5 body templates as defined in the XML
file
>
> I am wondering if this is significantly slower and what potential risks
are with this system vs a traditional database (which is
> available) or using a language's inbuilt XML parser such as that in PHP?