RE: XSLT and Text Processing Languages

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <TRA@xxxxxxxx>]

> OmniMark advantages :
> - Less resource hogging

I beg to differ.  Given an 150 Mb XML input file, my memory usage with Omnimark 5.1 grew to 400 Mb, and I was working with a strictly local program.

Additionally Omnimark has serious trouble with underscores in element-names.  Apparenly XML-input data has to conform to a DTD, which does not always apply for our data.

> - For any other format -> XML, Omnimark is mandatory

Not entirely so.  XML is very easy to generate with Perl, and it is equally easy to parse a lot of non-complex text formats in Perl (if you can put it in a regular expression).  Parsing XML with Perl is rather slow, though.

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