Nice quote

[Steve Holden]

"Jarek Zgoda" <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> wrote in message
news:b7251f$1ma$2 at atlantis.news.tpi.pl...
> Jeremy Bowers <jerf at jerf.org> pisze:
>
> >>   """The Python people also piped to say "everything's just
> >>      fine here" but then they always do, I really must learn that
> >>      language."""
> >
> > Would somebody amplify on this please? What XML library do we have
that's
> > easier to use then DOM or SAX for real world tasks that doesn't require
> > reading the whole file into memory to work?
>
> Is it a problem to read whole file to parse the XML? Really? I'm happy
> using ReportLab's pyRXP and effbot's ElementTree (loosely based on
> J.Clark's expat parser...) - they both use similar approach to build
> document structure. And both are fast, with pyRXP being faster but with
> less intuitive interface.
>

It is a problem when the file is several  gigabytes long, I suppose, and
people are for some reason using XML to transfer data structures that long
according to reports on this group.

regards
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