[Haskell] Re: Current XML libraries status

[Krasimir Angelov]

Thanks to everyone who answered. HXML still seems to be the best for me. It
is fast and it has good Arrow interface. It is also a small and simple
library. I tried also HXT with this example:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HXT#Getting_started:_Hello_world_examples

but it just died with out of memory. HXML just works. I have not tried the
Light XML library because it doesn't provide Arrow interface.

I updated HXML to use more stuff from the standard libraries. Now I can use
the syntax sugar for arrows with it. Is the library maintained? Should I
send a patch to someone?

Best Regards,
  Krasimir



On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Krasimir Angelov <kr.angelov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does some one have made performance tests on the different XML libraries
> for Haskell? I have a 20MB xml file that I want to read. I remember from my
> earlier experiments (years ago) that all libraries were too slow and were
> consuming too much memory. I hoped that this situation had changed but maybe
> not. I looked at HaXML, libxml, HXML and HXT. HaXML eats a lot of memory and
> is still very slow. libxml is unfinished binding to the C library. Currently
> it only allows to create documents. HXML seems to be very promising. It
> works fast and it doesn't eat memory. Unfortunately it is that it seems to
> be rather old. It uses its own Arrow and Tree libraries instead of the
> standard libraries. I have not jumped into HXT yet because it seems to be
> very large library. Could someone recomend which one is the state of the
> art?
>
> Best Regards,
>   Krasimir
>
>
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