Sam Tregar <sam@[...].com>  wrote:
>  On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Petr Cimprich wrote:
> 
> > Some time ago, Matt Sergeant has uploaded an XS implementation of Expat
> > based SAX parser to CPAN. Still available in his directory as
> > XML-SAX-Expat-XS-Beta-0.90_01.tar.gz. The parser hasn't been complete
> > yet but it has already demonstrated it's considerably faster than
> > existing PerlSAX2 parsers.
> 
>  Awesome!  Thank you for taking on this important project.

Absolutely!  This is great news!

>  I have a question for you: will this SAX parser implement the
>  document-locator interface (set_document_locator() and
>  get_document_locator())?  Currently only XML::SAX::PurePerl implements
>  this interface.  Without it XML::Validator::Schema can't produce line
>  numbers for schema violations, which is a major usability problem.  I
>  tried to add document-locator support to XML::SAX::Expat, but ran into
>  some very frusterating seg-fault bugs and eventually gave up.

One other minor featurette that would be nice: Can we have proper
XML::SAX::Exceptions thrown on error?  I seem to recall that plain
XML::SAX::Expat doesn't use them, just plain die(), which made it
difficult to isolate parse errors in a large system.

Thanks,
-Dom

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