[Adium-devl] O'Reilly XML blog article: Parsing XML… backwards?

[Joshual Lock]

Peter,

On 14 Mar 2007, at 06:48, Peter Hosey wrote:
> Found this in my referer logs:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/parsing_xml_backwards.html
>
> It's an article about LMX and the various ways it's a Bad Idea.  
> Some are better than others, but anyway, the article is definitely  
> worth a read. Also, I have a comment in there.

Seems to me like the author objects to reverse XML parsers in  
general, yet admits they have their place. I'd say that Adiums use  
case for LMX is one of those places.
And, IMHO, where it makes sense for others to use an reverse XML  
parser LMX will fit the bill nicely.

> The other downside is that we already have ULF and LMX; this would  
> be yet another log format, whose main reason for existence would be  
> the fact that LMX won't work 100% of the time with XML from the  
> sort of people who name their elements “hello--”.
>
> I'm inclined to stay with ULF, but I wanted to bounce it off you guys.

I'd say stick with ULF. My impression was that the author didn't  
really grok how LMX is being used within Adium

"Sixth problem: how do you append to the document in the first place  
if the root element is already closed? And if you never close the  
root element, then it’s not an XML file at all."

LMX is used to read previous chat logs. Adium doesn't append to a  
chat log that LMX reads, right?

- J

Joshua Lock
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