Re: [Boost-users] spirit and xml

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-12 19:49:37

Cory Nelson wrote:
> On 2/12/07, abir basak <abirbasak_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I am at present using spirit for parsing unipen file as specified in
>> http://www.unipen.org/dataformats.html . That is great and quite easy to
>> parse, thanks to spirit.
>>  Now I am looking to use spirit for parsing an specific xml file ( w3c
>> inkml file). So my intension is not to have a generic xml parser, rather
>> than a specific xml parser (which also have some BNF grammar) . Anyone
>> had used spirit for domain specific xml parsing?
>>  I believe using spirit will make it faster. Also I am interested to
>> parse only a portion of the whole document at a time, and generate data
>>  from that portion only, rather generating data for whole DOM (The
>> files are large, 4-20 MB typically)
> 
> Spirit is a great parser but if what you are aiming for is speed it's
> probably not for you.  It can be quite slow compared to hand-written
> parsers (especially with complex grammars).  If you still want to use
> it though, I think I remember one of the spirit examples involving
> parsing some basic XML.

We are hoping to address the performance concerns with 2.0 (under
development).

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net