On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andreas Raab wrote:

> > >From an outsider's perspective, this seems like a really strange
> > strategy.  Code size isn't a terribly big deal -- the thing the Squeak
> > community is most constrained by is programmer time.
>
> Code size isn't but complexity is. Usually these two go hand in hand and
> therefore it's no strange argument at all. In fact I'd argue that programmer
> time is (in this particular case) mostly dictated by the complexity involved
> in the parser itself - most people will want to do pretty simple stuff.

I totally agree.  When I evaluated the available XML parsers out there
this summer (for a "real" project), I went with Duane's package because it
was very simple and straight foward to use, but had the features I needed.
I think that such a mindset would be a good idea for whomever chooses
which XML parser goes into the image.

Regards,
Aaron

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