[XML-SIG] The fastest XML parser around

[Henry S. Thompson]

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:28:38AM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> > ReportLab (www.reportlab.com) are proud to announce the release of pyRXP,
> > the fastest XML parsing toolkit for python, and possibly for any other
> > language
> > anywhere:
> > 
> >                      http://www.reportlab.com/xml/pyrxp.html
> > 
> > pyRXP is a wrapper around the excellent RXP parser developed by Richard
> > Tobin at the University of Edinburgh.  Our goal is very simple:  get an
> > entire
> > XML document into memory, and validated, as quickly and efficiently
> > as possible.   You can parse and validate Hamlet in a tenth of a second on a
> > standard PC.
> 
>   Last time I checked (i.e. when I was still a W3C staff member and we asked
> Henry Thompson and Richard Tobin to make RXP open source), the licence for
> RXP was GPL.
>    As far as I can tell it still is:
>      http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
> 
>   So it is hardly usable for any commercial or non-GPL framework.

ReportLab paid the University of Edinburgh for a non-GPL license, enabling it
to distribute pyRXP on flexible terms, as long as they preclude
unbundling RXP and distributing it on its own.

ht
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