Re: [xml-dev] Parsing efficiency? - why not 'compile'????

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:38 pm, David Megginson wrote:
> We may just have to accept that the Tim B. twins (Tim
> Berners-Lee and Tim Bray) have been right all along, and that
> text-based formats really are efficient enough for the vast majority
> of applications.

This is also proposed by Kerningham and Pike in "The Practice of Programming" 
(a good book BTW).