XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> I'll eventually look into ways of speeding it up, but I do not 
> believe speed is more important than correctness.

I think you are absolutely right in this case: making sure that toXML always
returns a well-formed document (hmm, is an infinitely long document 
well-formed?
No parser can handle it!) is more important than a fairly cheap check that
corresponds only to the depth and can be bypassed in the most common case
(viz. the new child has no children).

But....

> A program that does 
> the wrong thing 1000 times faster is useless. 

Which would you rather have, a version of Saxon with one bug less, or one
that ran 1000 times faster?

> Parsing currently short circuits a lot of checks the parser has 
> already done. I should be able to short this one too, though it may 
> not currently be short circuited in 1.0d21.

If you make the test I mentioned above (which someone else on the list came
up with, not me), then it is implicitly in effect during parsing, since 
parsers
always add new nodes to old.

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