July 18, 2010
5:23 a.m.
---- On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:25:54 -0700 Levente Uzonyi wrote ----
(Btw the idea that XMLElement >> #tag is returning a symbol and the #tags*[dD]o: methods are expecting a symbol for tag is a very bad idea. It degrades performance.)
And where did the XML-Parser go from Pharo?
XMLSupport has completely string-based for a few months now. Expecting or supplying symbols will probably still work in Squeak and Pharo as Symbol is a subclass of string and #test = ' test' evaluates to true, but this is not portable and, as you pointed out, results in a degradation of performance.