XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> Again I ask you, how do you know that? What evidence do you have that 
> marshalling/unmarshalling is faster than serializing/parsing? You're 
> making an assumption here that I've seen no evidence for. Object 
> serialization in Java has a long history of being dog slow. if you 
> want to claim it's faster than XML parsing you're going to have to 
> measure it.

The numbers from Dennis Sosnoski's article 
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-injava/
suggest that serializing to text and re-parsing is way faster than using
Java's native serialization mechanism.

Brad