XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

> I'd be tempted to file a bug report with Sun on this one. There's no 
> reason URL encoding should take longer than XML parsing. It's a very 
> straightforward operation. I could write my own code to create file 
> URLs from a File object. However, I'd be very nervous about getting it 
> wrong on some platforms, and also causing problems if Sun ever updates 
> their VM so this operation works reasonably.

Maybe there's a misunderstanding here...

Builder.build(File) does indeed have its own inefficient hacky code to 
create file URLs from a File object (using URLEncoder in a very 
inefficient manner). This piece of XOM code is the performance problem. 
The standard java way File.toURI().toString() does not show the 
performance regression (but requires JDK 1.4).