XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 10:05 PM +0100 5/11/03, Janek Bogucki wrote:

> Is there any reason why an invocation of ArrayList.trimToSize (), 
> after the array has had all
> items added to it, would be inappropriate? This would minimise the 
> storage cost.

I hadn't thought of that. How expensive is trimToSize()? Probably 
O(1) I expect, and you might be able to make that up by not having to 
constantly grow the arrays as you build the document. Just start them 
fairly large, and then chop it down when you're finished. I'll try it 
out and see what it does to the numbers.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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