Re: xmls 0.2 released

Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clump
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On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Miles Egan wrote:

> I've released a new version of my xml parser.  Improvements include:
>
>     * Now skips DTDs.
>     * Roughly seven times faster.
>     * Parses CDATA sections.
>
> It deals with a much bigger chunk of the oasis test suite now too.
> Thanks to Sven Van Caekenberghe and James Anderson for valuable
> discussions and suggestions.

You're welcome. I'll have a look at your new version when I find some 
time - I am especially interested in the speed upgrade. What did you 
change ?

> Out of curiousity, do people have more need of an xml-rpc library or a
> soap library?

XML-RPC is a lot easier - hence there are many implementations. Many 
people manage to implement the spec in a very short time and have it 
interoperate. That's what's good about it.

SOAP seems a lot more complex, especially if you want to properly 
interoperate with other implementations (even Java and .net don't 
always agree). But it is a more modern standard, and could/should be 
faster and more efficient.

I think that a good, compatible open-source CL SOAP implementation 
would be a great thing that will prove to be quite valuable in 
enterprise contexts.

Sven

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