Re: [Evolution] bad separation

[Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace lunateks com>]

Sejal Patel wrote:

> interaction between all 3 things.  Searching can be reduced simply because
> you don't have to do long complicated instructions to parse out the mbox
> in comparison to a well designed XML thing because in normal searches and
> filters you are looking ONLY for subjects or from or date or things like
> that.  They are a breeze to do because the XML has already broken it down
> into these and the XML parsers out there are very effecient at finding
> these.

I still don't see how XML can be parser. You still need to parse
the XML and pull out the tags you're interested in.

As far as I can see, parsing a line oriented file is faster than
parsing a tag oriented structure where every character needs to
be analysed to check if it's part of a tag or not.

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Kiran Jonnalagadda
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