Re: Efficacy of rule specification, processing

Hilarie Orman wrote:

> There's experience is that it is not too expensive to parse message
> bodies.  It is, however, a very limited form of parsing, one that
> could be more accurately described as lexical analysis.  Only the
> tags needed for the current set of rules need be lexed.
Can you do that at "line speed"? Probably time to come up with the
scenario document, properly derive the requirements (including some
performance assumptions) and then try to answer the question.

-Markus