Re: Any interest in an HTML DOM in C / C# / similar? (was Re: State of the AJAX Union)

Well, maybe it isn't in conflict, but I failed to mention another
requirement - the application that I'm referring to also has to run on
Linux.  Perhaps that still doesn't represent a problem - could Mono be
workable?  I haven't worked with it enough to know.

On 11/24/06, John J Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Can you explain how wrapping a C/C# DOM implementation and using that from
> Perl is in conflict with using Perl's regex engine?
>
>
> John
>
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote:
>
> > For one particular application, I need the speed of Perl's regex engine
> and
> > I have not been able to match it in C# or even with limited attempts
> using
> > C++ and Boost's regex library.  So, regardless of feature availability
> on
> > other platforms, I'm going to continue pursuing DOM & JS functionality
> in
> > Perl extending WWW::Mechanize.
> >
> > That said, I do a lot of *other* work in C# and what you suggest would
> be
> > useful.  If you already have something in the works (you mentioned
> > publishing some code), I'd be interested in learning more.
> >
> > On 11/23/06, John J Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote:
> >>
> >> > Would an "easier" (yet still monumental) starting point be to tackle
> the
> >> DOM
> >> > implementation independent of a JS engine?
> >> [...]
> >> > This seems like a great open source project - it's way too much to
> >> handle
> >> > for most individual developers, but I think could be tackled with a
> >> > moderately organized team of folks with a good design laid out in
> >> advance.
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> So, having pooh-poohed Christopher's proposal, I'm going to make a very
> >> similar proposal of my own.
> >>
> >> Give me some slack, I have the excuse of actually having put in some
> >> implementation effort on this, and published the code :-) (but not in
> >> Perl).  And I'm asking with a view to writing some more code myself
> >> (albeit only a slim chance of that happening).
> >>
> >> So, my question / semi-serious proposal is: is anybody here interested
> in
> >> collaborating in writing a portable HTML DOM library and DOM builder in
> a
> >> language *other* than Perl, with the intent of wrapping it for Perl and
> >> other languages (Python is my own interest)?
> >>
> >> I'm afraid I'm not interested in Perl 6's cross-language support,
> though.
> >> If it were me working on it, it would probably have to be C, C++ or C#
> (or
> >> possibly Java, or something weirder like Caml).  Cross-language use is
> one
> >> reason for my thinking about doing it in one of those
> languages.  Memory
> >> usage and execution speed is another.  I lean towards C or C#.
> >>
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >
>