XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Elliotte Harold writes:

> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> 
> >>
> >
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Then indeed I misunderstood. It's been a while since I worked on that 
> method. I'll take a look at it and see if there are any obvious hotspots 
> I can eliminate. Thanks for the report.

It's URLEncode.encode(String) which for each call creates a StringBuffer,
a StringWriter, a ByteArrayOutputStream, and a array of bytes.

Brad