Re^2: Fastest XML Parser ?

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Wow, very fast; thnx for the pointer.

BUT....the output is very ~~dense~~bloated. Every leaf node is a full hash, and it tries to preserve comments and attributes. Which is great if the output is going to be turned back into XML...but I just want the values/attributes keyed by their names, so I can create a reasonably compressed piece of JSON to send to the browser.

I'm taking a stab at patching it w/ a "compact" option to achieve that and see how it behaves.

Update:
Hacked it up to support both a compact mode, and a to_json() method;
Results:
XML::Simple + XML::LibXML + JSON::XS : ~0.6 sec
XML::Bare w/ hacks: 0.04 sec (yes, 40 millisecs)

I think I've found my favorite XML parser 8^))

Perl Contrarian & SQL fanboy

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Re^3: Fastest XML Parser ? by gfk (Novice) on Jul 09, 2008 at 14:50 UTC
I'm interested in doing to same thing (convert XML to JSON quickly) and your solution looks very interesting. Would you mind posting it somewhere for the whole world to enjoy? :-) Thanks, GFK's	[reply]

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