Re: a last comment on xml-rpc

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:38:31PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> I've also written an XML-RPC interface to Xend in C using libxml2.  It 
>> very little code and just works.  Granted, parsing XML is more painful 
>> that parsing S-Expressions but there are so many libraries for so many 
>> languages that XML parsing is really a nop.
>>     
>
>   Did you push that code anywhere ;-) ?
>   
Not yet, but I will be :-)
> I can think of 2 very different ways to do the implementation (tree + paths
> or direct SAX2 event flow) and would probably end up doing the second one
> though the code might be more complex.
I took the tree/path approach.  I wrote an XML-RPC parser before using 
libexpat and it was more complicated than it should have been.  Once one 
has a DOM structure it's a pretty straight forward recursive routine to 
marshal/unmarshal.
>  It might depends on the efficiency of
> the Python side, it may not be worth shaving microseconds and kilobytes
> on the C side if the Python side is one order of magnitude slower, in which
> case the simplest C code would be best.
>   
Yeah, that was my basic feeling about it :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> Daniel
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