Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 12/14/09 23:32, David Young wrote:
> Jean-Yves,
>
> Most of the existing XML tools are too CPU- and memory-intensive, I
> agree, but NetBSD happens to be the center for improvements.  Producing
> a lightweight alternative for XML processing was the concern of a NetBSD
> GSoC 2009 project that I mentored.  Xmlgrep, for search/extraction
> on XML streams, is very usable, and a program called xmlsed, for
> transforming XML streams, is under development.  By design, xmlgrep
> is FAST and it uses memory conservatively.  Furthermore, the xmlgrep
> binary and its light dependencies are quite a bit smaller than you might
> expect:
>
> % ls -l `which xmlgrep`
> -rwxr-x---  1 dyoung  wasabi   47K Nov 16 17:57 
> /home/dyoung/scratch-cuw/xmltools/xmlgrep/xmlgrep
> % ldd `which xmlgrep`
> /home/dyoung/scratch-cuw/xmltools/xmlgrep/xmlgrep:
>         -lexpat.1 =>  /usr/pkg/lib/libexpat.so.1
>         -lc.12 =>  /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> % ls -l /usr/pkg/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel   155K Jun 18  2008 /usr/pkg/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2

Woot, that's fairly smaller than the tools I have to use at work. They 
are closer to MB in size :o (written in Java; it doesn't help here). I 
thought that libexpact was bigger.

Same goes for computation I guess? With a lightweight XPath/XSLT 2.0 
processor for GSOC 2010 ;) ?

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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