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Re: Re: Re: xml parsers: do I need one?by idsfa (Vicar) |
on Sep 02, 2003 at 19:36 UTC ( [id://288403]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
{My apologies for not having been logged in earlier when
I suggested XSLT} As you said: "source XML is large" and contains "non-essential information". His example case was "large" (3.3MB) and searching solely for tags of type <message>. That is a very simple XSLT to output as HTML (fragmentary example, please don't carp about the syntax): XSLT can convert XML directly into XML, HTML, or even perl:
I wouldn't want to comment further without a better understanding of the actual "processing" to be done, but the simple example presented in the question is practically a textbook case for XSLT. Whatever. Use the tools you like.
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