[erlang-questions] current xml parsers

[Roberto Ostinelli]

thank you all for these precious inputs.

:)

r.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Michał Ptaszek <
michal.ptaszek@REDACTED> wrote:

> There was a bug in exml that has been fixed a couple of weeks
> ago (buffer overflow in the NIF function), I tried it on WURFL
> today and the results are as follows:
>
> {ok, XML} = file:read_file("/tmp/wurfl.xml").
> timer:tc(exml, parse, [XML]).
> {3796645,
>  {ok,{xmlelement,<<"wurfl">>,[],
>                 [{xmlcdata,<<"\n  ">>},
>                  {xmlelement,<<"version">>,[],
>                              [{xmlcdata,<<"\n    ">>},
>                               {xmlelement,<<"ver">>,[],
>                                           [{xmlcdata,<<"2.3,
> db.scientiamobile.c"...>>}]},
>                               {xmlcdata,<<"\n    ">>},
>                               {xmlelement,<<"last_updated">>,[],
>                                           [{xmlcdata,<<"Thu Nov 17
> 18:01"...>>}]},
>                               {xmlcdata,<<"\n    ">>},
>                               {xmlelement,<<"official_url">>,[],
>                                           [{xmlcdata,<<"http://w"...>>}]},
>                               {xmlcdata,<<"\n\t    ">>},
>                               {xmlelement,<<"maintainers">>,[],
>
> [{xmlcdata,<<...>>},{xmlelement,...},{...}|...]},
>                               {xmlcdata,<<"\n\t    ">>},
> ...
>
> Best regards,
> Michal Ptaszek
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I think I tried that lib once, because I had the requirement to parse
> > WURFL
> > http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/
> > It is a giant XML that has info about mobile devices. It worked fine
> > with
> > normal sized XMLs, but WURFL crashed it (and erlang along with it).
> >
> >
> > Sergej
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Michał Ptaszek <
> > michal.ptaszek@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Roberto,
> > >
> > > you might want to be interested in looking at exml:
> > > it's a very simple NIF-based parser built around
> > > expat library:
> > > https://github.com/paulgray/exml
> > >
> > > Basing on some of the simple benchmarks of my own it
> > > should be 2-3 times faster than xmerl.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Michal Ptaszek
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > Dear list,
> > > >
> > > > does someone have recent considerations on xml parsers in terms
> > > > of
> > > > memory
> > > > footprint, parsing speed and stability?
> > > >
> > > > The ones I'm aware of are xmerl, erlsom [1] and the driver used
> > > > in
> > > > ejabberd
> > > > (which unfortunately is GPL).
> > > >
> > > > I don't care about DTD validation.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > >
> > > > r.
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://erlsom.sourceforge.net/erlsom.htm
> > > >
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