Lev Walkin
Recently I had to process some multi-megabyte XML files.
Join the club! FWIW, I ended up using tagsoup.
-- %%% There is apparently a space leak here, but I can't find it. -- %%% Update 28 Feb 2000: There is a leak, but it's fixed -- %%% by a well-known GC implementation technique.
I couldn't get this to work either. In particular, I think the GC trick should allow this without leakage: breaks p = groupBy (const (not.p)) But instead I implemented it as: breaks :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [[a]] breaks p (x:xs) = let first = x : takeWhile (not.p) xs rest = dropWhile (not.p) xs in rest `par` first : if null rest then [] else breaks p rest breaks _ [] = [] With -smp, this doesn't leak. It's kind of annoying to have to rely on -smp in a library as the library cannot control how the applications get linked, but I've found no other solution. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants