[antlr-interest] ANTLR3 tutorial

[Martin Probst]

Hi,

>> 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! ;)

Well, that depends largely on what you have. E.g. a SAX parser, which  
is actually more of a lexer, will be very hard to beat. And the  
automata that are constructed by schema typed things shouldn't be all  
that slow either. What do you mean with "those tools"? DOM is  
actually quite a memory hog, but in almost all use cases you don't  
really need it.

Martin