[antlr-interest] Re: Local lookahead depth

Oliver Zeigermann oliver at zeigermann.de
Mon Nov 10 12:07:12 PST 2003


John D. Mitchell wrote:

>>>>>>"Oliver" == Oliver Zeigermann <oliver at zeigermann.de> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>are you really serious about this? Have a look at the DOM vs. SAX
>>discussion in the XML area...
> 
> 
> The fundamental question there is simply "do you need all of the complexity
> of a full 'DOM' approach or is a syntax-directed translation all that you
> need?"  I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that all of the
> rest of those whacked out discussions boil down to "premature
> optimization".

What's your point here?

> It cracks me up how many people learn "XML" and think themselves language
> and/or parsing experts.

This is certainly off topic...

Oliver



 

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