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diff --git a/textproc/lua-luaexpat/pkg-descr b/textproc/lua-luaexpat/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8109063588e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/lua-luaexpat/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library. SAX is the Simple API +for XML and allows programs to: +- process a XML document incrementally, thus being able to handle huge documents + without memory penalties; +- register handler functions which are called by the parser during the + processing of the document, handling the document elements or text. + +With an event-based API like SAX the XML document can be fed to the parser in +chunks, and the parsing begins as soon as the parser receives the first document +chunk. LuaExpat reports parsing events (such as the start and end of elements) +directly to the application through callbacks. The parsing of huge documents can +benefit from this piecemeal operation. |