RSS native parsing in the next Firebird

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Go native with Java Native Interface

Go native with Java Native Interface 03/15/2003 02:55 AM
CNET Mar 15 2003 1:24AM ET

Parsing RSS At All Costs

Parsing RSS At All Costs 01/22/2003 07:41 PM
In his second Dive into XML column, Mark Pilgrim describes his parse-at-all-costs parser of ill-formed RSS feeds, using Python's sgmllib.

More XML: Parsing with Evolt.org

More XML: Parsing with Evolt.org 08/14/2002 08:16 AM

Parsing XML with Perl

Parsing XML with Perl 07/21/2002 10:36 PM
CNET Jul 21 2002 10:12PM ET

Parsing OWL in RDF/XML Published

Parsing OWL in RDF/XML Published 01/22/2004 03:25 AM
2004-01-21: The Web Ontology Working Group has released Parsing OWL in RDF/XML as a Working Group Note. The OWL language is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. This document describes a strategy for OWL-RDF parsers. Read about the Semantic Web. (News archive)

Article on Parsing RSS

Article on Parsing RSS 11/18/2002 12:58 PM
I have put up an article on how I parse RSS files. Also, in the same article I provide my RSS parser as a free download. I'd appreciate any feedback on it. The WAI compliancy will have to wait another day. One thing the Bobby accessibility validator doesn't like about my site is the links below every new post. The "permalink" and "comments" are specifically what it doesn't like. This is because the same text is repeated for each news post, although each one points to something (slightly) different. I don't want to get rid of these links, so I'm looking for a suitable (perhaps graphical) alternative.

BitFlux Blog: Parsing Bad XML in PHP 5.1

BitFlux Blog: Parsing Bad XML in PHP 5.1 08/19/2004 10:10 AM
In a new note from the BitFlux blog, Christian Stocker has information about the latest patch comitted to the PHP 5.1 branch that allows you to parse not well-formed XML documents and adds the missing elements, eg. missing closing tags.

Functional XML Parsing Framework 5.1

Functional XML Parsing Framework 5.1 09/16/2004 09:22 PM
SAX/DOM/SXML parsers with support for XML namespaces and validation.

Features: Non-Extractive Parsing for XML

Features: Non-Extractive Parsing for XML 05/19/2004 07:15 PM
Changing the way XML parsers are written can make parsing more efficient and more flexible.

Parsing the News.com RSS feed with PHP

Parsing the News.com RSS feed with PHP 12/11/2003 02:48 AM
CNET Dec 11 2003 2:44AM ET

Pull Parsing in C# and Java

Pull Parsing in C# and Java 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Parsing a Querystring With Perl

Parsing a Querystring With Perl 12/19/2002 07:40 PM
Stickysauce Dec 19 2002 6:46PM ET

Independently Parsing Perl

Independently Parsing Perl 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
Stodgy, boring languages have great editors. What's keeping Perl from refactoring support, perfect syntax highlighting, and other advanced transformation techniques? It's really difficult to parse Perl. Fortunately, Adam Kennedy's PPI project provides a standalone Perl parser that operates correctly on all but 28 of the 38,000 CPAN modules. Here's how it works and what you can do with it.

Python parsing module

Python parsing module 12/18/2003 01:00 PM
pyParsing Python library - version 1.0.1 released

dtddoc step 1: Parsing a DTD

dtddoc step 1: Parsing a DTD 10/02/2002 09:35 AM
Our quest to build a better automatic DTD documentation tool begins with a quick look at some of the available DTD parsers for Java, Perl, and PHP. By Michael Classen. 1002

Simple XML parsing with SAX and DOM
(OnJava.com)

Simple XML parsing with SAX and DOM
(OnJava.com) 07/01/2002 08:28 AM

On IBM and native XML

On IBM and native XML 04/06/2005 04:46 AM
Comment Abusing the natives

IBM to Add Native XML for DB2

IBM to Add Native XML for DB2 01/06/2005 02:43 PM
Internet News Jan 6 2005 6:40PM GMT

Firebird

Firebird 06/14/2004 11:37 AM

As will surprise nobody who knows me, the shininess of the Firebird database server had been blinding me since I posted that interview yesterday. It was calling my name, so I just had to download and install it.

I'm extremely happy with what I found — it's a free database server with a ton of features you're not going to find in MySQL. There's a self-extracting Windows installer, it installs itself as a service, and it even gives you a little Control Panel applet to manage it.

It has support for foreign keys, views, triggers, and stored procedures (with what looks like a very rich procedure language). There's full PHP support through the ibase_* set of functions and it's supported in the ADODB database abstraction library.

There's not much in the way of free clients. It comes with a command line client, of course, but I didn't find any free graphical clients. There's this one and this one, but they run from $79 to $250.

I still don't quite have a handle on the genesis of the project. I gather it came out of Borland's InterBase product, but I'm not sure if InterBase continues, or if it was abandoned (there's a Windows 2003 version of it, so it's probably still alive in some form). Firebird (and InterBase) penetration appears to be most heavy in Europe. It's commonly used with the Delphi language (another Borland product).

In browsing some of the message boards about Firebird, I got the same...vibe that I got about MySQL five years or so ago. There's a lot of buzz, and there seems to be a lot of transfer from MySQL to Firebird. The talk all seems to be exceedingly positive.

So why would you use MySQL over Firebird given that the latter has support for so many more features and is just as free? I guess I'm a little more confident with MySQL's battle-worthiness, given that it's been around the block so many times. (But by the same token, InterBase wasn't in beta or anything — that was a production quality database server.)

So am I ready to switch all my stuff over to Firebird? No...not yet. But I don't think I'll look at MySQL quite the same way ever again. This seems like a very attractive option.

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"Firebird"

"Firebird" 02/19/2004 03:22 PM

Parsing XML documents with Perl's
XML::Simple

Parsing XML documents with Perl's
XML::Simple 09/20/2004 12:46 AM
CNET Sep 20 2004 4:09AM GMT

Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing
vulnerability

Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing
vulnerability 12/09/2003 03:45 PM
soulshok_at_hippie.dk (Dec 09 2003)

WPkontakt message parsing error

WPkontakt message parsing error 12/24/2004 12:36 PM
Jaroslaw Sajko (Dec 23 2004)

Internet Explorer URL parsing
vulnerability

Internet Explorer URL parsing
vulnerability 12/09/2003 01:22 PM
bugtraq_at_zapthedingbat.com (Dec 09 2003)

RE: Internet Explorer URL parsing
vulnerability

RE: Internet Explorer URL parsing
vulnerability 12/10/2003 01:52 PM
http-equiv_at_excite.com (Dec 09 2003)

Liberal XML parsing related to
personality?

Liberal XML parsing related to
personality? 02/12/2004 07:41 PM
The heat of the discussion on liberal XML parsing has subsided, so this is actually a little late. That's because I wasn't sure if I should post this. But a post by Dave Winer today convinced me to post it anyway. Let me just say up front that I could be completely wrong. ?

High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive

High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive 02/11/2004 03:58 AM
For a PHP weblog, there haven't been many PHP articles or links recently. This is because I feel most recent PHP articles I read have nothing fresh to say, repeating material I linked to 2 or 3 years ago. Perhaps I'm getting jaded. So to keep things fresh, here's a new article, mostly original, and hopefully of some interest to everyone!

Last year, Tim Bray, one of the co-authors of the XML spec, mentioned that he used Perl regular expressions to parse XML.

Now here's the dirty secret; most of it is machine-generated XML, and in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it.

I was struck by this because I would have thought XPath or SAX would provide better performance as they are APIs tuned specifically for XML.

I decided to do some benchmarks to determine which techniques were better. I also wanted a realistic test, so I benchmarked parsing the RSS feed of this web-site, searching for the contents of all title tags, and returning the contents as an array. The RSS file is from Nov 2003 (yes i did this benchmark that long ago), and is about 20K and has 12 title tags, so the returned array will have 12 title strings.

The techniques used were:

1. Regular expression: preg_match_all('/<title>([^<]*)/',$rss,$titles_arr))

2. Explode('<title>', $rss) then strip the matching </title> tag using strpos() and substr().

3. XPath, using $title_nodes = $ctx->xpath_eval("//title");

4. SAX, wrote an element handler function that matched and processed the title tag.

5. DOM, using $titles = $dom->get_elements_by_tagname('title'). Intuitively, this should have been the slowest, as the whole tree is generated.

Results

Here are the timings for processing the RSS file 1000 times. Faster is better.

            seconds       Relative 
                          to REGEX
REGEX       0.1080          1.00
EXPLODE     0.1696          1.57
DOM         6.3212         58.53
XPATH       8.3417         77.24
SAX        10.0851         93.38

Conclusion

Intutively, I would have thought that XPath would be the fastest as XPath expressions can be compiled and tuned for XML. But the best performance was achieved using regular expressions, which is what Tim is using.

It appears that the DOM, SAX and XPath libraries remain immature (compared to the Perl-compatible regex library) and are not highly optimized. Strangely enough, DOM performance is better than XPath and SAX! Perhaps someone else can explain why.

If anyone is interested, i can post the source.

Test platform: Windows 2000, PHP 4.3.3. I also tested on Linux, PHP 4.3.2, with similar results.

Introduction to Event-Driven XML Parsing

Introduction to Event-Driven XML Parsing 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
Apple documents the new-in-Panther NSXMLParser class.

S-exp-based XML parsing/query/conversion

S-exp-based XML parsing/query/conversion 09/16/2004 07:33 PM
SSAX-SXML Release 5.1

Making the News: Parsing RSS Feeds With
PHP

Making the News: Parsing RSS Feeds With
PHP 11/13/2002 08:59 AM

dtddoc step 1: Parsing a DTD
(WebReference.com)

dtddoc step 1: Parsing a DTD
(WebReference.com) 10/08/2002 09:14 AM

The State of the Union Parsing Tool

The State of the Union Parsing Tool 02/05/2005 09:55 PM

style.org/stateoftheunion/parse
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Warcraft III Replay Parsing Library

Warcraft III Replay Parsing Library 08/09/2004 11:30 AM
W3RepLib 0.9 beta released!

URL Parsing Bug in IE Invites Phishing
Attacks

URL Parsing Bug in IE Invites Phishing
Attacks 06/11/2004 09:09 PM
The bug, which affects fully patched versions of IE, lets malicious sites assume the privileges of more trusted zones.

BitFlux Blog: Parsing Bad XML - Part 2

BitFlux Blog: Parsing Bad XML - Part 2 08/20/2004 08:31 AM
In response to his introduction of the non-well-formed XML patch the other day, Christian Stocker has a new posting with a bit of a rebuttal on the subject.

Parsing XML documents with Perl
(Builder.com)

Parsing XML documents with Perl
(Builder.com) 07/18/2002 07:34 PM

Flaw in Microsoft JPEG Parsing

Flaw in Microsoft JPEG Parsing 09/14/2004 06:12 PM

Boost performance when parsing (Java
Pro)

Boost performance when parsing (Java
Pro) 09/12/2002 07:48 AM

Eclipse goes native

Eclipse goes native 06/25/2004 04:59 PM
- Redhat frees Eclipse from the VM, via Sc ott Delap
Grok Description matches for RSS native parsing in the next Firebird
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Firefox and RSS; Question about Closing
Tabs

Firefox and RSS; Question about Closing
Tabs 09/17/2004 12:41 PM
The new version of Mozilla Firefox is out and supports RSS. Don Park calls the RSS support "crappy and useless." Question: One of my favorite features in Safari for OS X is the little circled X in each tab, so you can close it by clicking on the actual tab instead of having to go all the way to the right side of the window in Firefox to click the close-the-tab X there. Is there any Firefox add-on that makes it do the same thing?

Request for Feature: Firefox: See all
tabs

Request for Feature: Firefox: See all
tabs 09/17/2004 12:28 PM
The multiple tab feature of Firefox (and Opera before it) is enough of a reason to drop Microsoft Internet Explorer ... which, apparently, people are doing at an increased pace, although IE still has something like 93% of the market. But I currently have 31 instances of Firefox open, each with 1-4 tabs. So, I'd like an extension that lists all the open tabs in all the open instances. My dream extension would let me jump to any of those tabs. It would also let me close them or close multiple instances with a single click. And it would give...

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million 04/11/2005 11:59 PM

XP SP2: Download and Save For
Installation on Multiple Computers

XP SP2: Download and Save For
Installation on Multiple Computers 08/10/2004 12:00 AM
Tech-Recipes Aug 10 2004 3:13AM GMT

To Save Yourself a Trip, Download Pesky
Forms

To Save Yourself a Trip, Download Pesky
Forms 12/25/2003 02:02 AM
New York Times Dec 25 2003 0:16AM ET

Firefox beast million-download deadline

Firefox beast million-download deadline 09/27/2004 06:50 AM
CNET Sep 27 2004 10:08AM GMT

FireFox surpasses million-download goal

FireFox surpasses million-download goal 09/21/2004 10:36 AM

Firefox beats million-download deadline

Firefox beats million-download deadline 09/20/2004 06:35 PM
With days to spare, open-source browser meets 10-day goal of 1 million downloads.

Firefox smashes 1 million download
deadline

Firefox smashes 1 million download
deadline 09/21/2004 09:08 PM
Techzonez Sep 22 2004 1:06AM GMT

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 4

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 4 04/15/2005 03:16 PM
If the last three days' worth of Firefox extensions have only whetted your appetite for more, we're here for one last installment to feed that hunger.

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 2

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 2 04/13/2005 02:37 PM
Yesterday we look at three useful Firefox extensions -- small applications that add functionality to Mozilla's Web browser. Here are a few more favorites.

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 1

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 1 04/12/2005 02:48 PM
The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser is without a doubt an open source software success story. One of its strengths is the active development community that works to expand and improve the browser's functionality through the development of Firefox extensions -- small applications that add functionality to Firefox. Here are a few of my favorite extensions, all tested with Firefox 1.0.1 on Windows XP and Mandrakelinux.

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 3

Essential Firefox extensions you should
download today - part 3 04/14/2005 04:55 PM
Following the first and second parts of this series, here are a couple more worthwhile Firefox extensions.

Mozilla / Firefox Download Dialog Source
Spoofing

Mozilla / Firefox Download Dialog Source
Spoofing 01/04/2005 11:22 AM
Secunia Advisory: SA13599 Critical: Less critical Impact: Spoofing Where: From remote Solution Status: Unpatched Software: Mozilla 1.7.x, Mozilla Firefox 1.x Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the source displayed in the Download Dialog box. The problem is that long sub-domains and paths aren’t displayed correctly, which therefore can be exploited to obfuscate what is being displayed in the source field of…

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Save time, save effort, save money

Save time, save effort, save money 05/28/2004 04:57 PM
CNET Asia May 28 2004 9:16PM GMT

Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Download
Dialog Source Spoofing

Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Download
Dialog Source Spoofing 01/04/2005 11:22 AM
Description: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the source displayed in the Download Dialog box. The problem is that long sub-domains and paths aren’t displayed correctly, which therefore can be exploited to obfuscate what is being displayed in the source field of the Download Dialog box. The vulnerability has been confirmed in Mozilla 1.7.3 for Linux, Mozilla 1.7.5 for Windows, and…

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Vulns: WebCT Campus Edition HTML Tags
HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Vulns: WebCT Campus Edition HTML Tags
HTML Injection Vulnerabilities 05/20/2004 05:40 PM
SecurityFocus May 20 2004 8:47PM GMT

Vulns: Google Toolbar About.HTML HTML
Injection Vulnerability

Vulns: Google Toolbar About.HTML HTML
Injection Vulnerability 09/20/2004 03:18 PM
SecurityFocus Sep 20 2004 6:14PM GMT

Vulns: Horde IMP HTML+TIME HTML
Injection Vulnerability

Vulns: Horde IMP HTML+TIME HTML
Injection Vulnerability 08/06/2004 04:29 PM
SecurityFocus Aug 6 2004 8:16PM GMT

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up 02/01/2005 10:05 PM

America's Man in the White House
Continues to Lie Like a Thief and Our
Soldiers Continue to Die: When Will the
Spoiled, Lying, Rich Kid Be Held
Accountable? Save the Nation. Save Our
Soldiers. Impeach and Prosecute Bush and
Cheney for High Crimes

America's Man in the White House
Continues to Lie Like a Thief and Our
Soldiers Continue to Die: When Will the
Spoiled, Lying, Rich Kid Be Held
Accountable? Save the Nation. Save Our
Soldiers. Impeach and Prosecute Bush and
Cheney for High Crimes 11/02/2003 06:30 AM

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CSS Tabs

CSS Tabs 07/02/2004 04:29 PM
If you've ever built any sort of web application, you've probably found yourself using tabs to create some part of the interface. I'm no Eric Meyer, but I came up with a pretty handy way to do that this afternoon. Read on to see my example, and if you have any cool CSS tricks we should know about, post a comment!

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adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox!

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox! 08/18/2004 06:48 AM
adbar for firefox .. Adbar

squarefree.com/extensions/adbar
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The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox 03/31/2005 07:27 AM

Beer and Tabs

Beer and Tabs 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
A build of Safari has been leaked into the wild, and, guess what, it has tabs! Although not fully implemented it seems to work quite well. { via slash dot }

Picking up the Tabs

Picking up the Tabs 01/10/2003 01:43 AM
Apple's Safari web browser has re-ignited the whole Tabbed Browsing Considered Harmful debate. I like tabbed browsing because I tend...

Damn you, where is my tabs?

Damn you, where is my tabs? 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
Google, what did you do to my tabs? We don’t appreciate drastic changes like this without being asked, damn it!...

Number Your Tabs

Number Your Tabs 09/17/2004 01:57 PM
One of the keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs is to use CTRL 1-9 to switch between open tabs. To solve the problem of figuring out which tab is 6 and which is 7, Derek Featherstone as created an easy to use css hack that numbers the tabs in Firefox:

HTML Tip: Problems With Nested HTML Tags

HTML Tip: Problems With Nested HTML Tags 11/30/2002 12:30 AM
Net Mechanic Nov 29 2002 11:13PM ET

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox 09/14/2004 02:50 PM

RSS native parsing in the next Firebird

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