Re: DSML library version .01

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:01:11PM -0500, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> Hi,
> Here's my first version of Net::DSML (and the helper module XML::DSML
> which you could use seperately, but it's probably easier to use
> Net::DSML).

This is a great start.

In XML::DSML you have a comment about renaming the module as Net::LDAP::DSML::Parser.

My answer would be that if it is a generic DSML parser, not connected with Net::LDAP,
then XML::DSML is probably the right place for it to live.

I have not tried the code, but from looking at it I have one concern.
It seems that the whole DSML file must be read into memory in one go.

This will be a disadvantage for large files and we should probably devise a way
to read the entries one at a time.

I guess you did it this way as by default XML::Parser works on the whole
file before it returns. But IIRC, it is possible to interface to
XML::Parser at a lower level. If not them maybe XML::Parser is not the
way to go.

Graham.