Re: Problems with xml-parse-string

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Doesn't seem too horrific.
>> It's not too horrific.  It's just that it's not as nice as it could
>> be.  And if you deal with these structures all the time, you get to
>> recreate the (and (consp data) (not (eq (car data) '@))) in every
>> single branch of every single little trivial function you write (and
>> read).
> That's why you use `xml-node-children' and so forth.

There's also the performance impact.  Elisp is slow, so it would only
work well if we push xml-node-children and friends down to C in such
a case.


        Stefan