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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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"Pat Rogers" <rogers@gnat.com> writes:

> And why would I want high-powered text parsing in my hard real-time
> embedded application?

Because you want to read the systems's controlling parameter set (in
our case, a few hundred options) fron an XML-format file (in Flash,
perhaps)?

OK, not likely for a digital watch, but I'm not making this one up!