[antlr-interest] ANTLR3 tutorial

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Thu Aug 3 08:12:34 PDT 2006


On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:30 AM, Martin Probst wrote:
> First, you should at all times avoid tricking people into writing a  
> parser for XML. There is absolutely no reason for this. None  
> whatsoever. There are XML parsers out there for all languages and a  
> variety of different profiles, SAX, DOM, XML Pull, whatever. They  
> are highly optimized and it's extremely unlikely you get something  
> faster using ANTLR.

Actually, for a specific DTD I can beat any general thingie...plus  
those tools are typical memory pigs are I thought were known to be  
slow! ;)

Ter



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