XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

> It's URLEncode.encode(String) which for each call creates a StringBuffer,
> a StringWriter, a ByteArrayOutputStream, and a array of bytes.
>  
That's probably it, but there's also a couple of methods that are called unnecessarily in each pass through the loop; or rather one method and on static field lookup. I've pulled them both out of the loop, eliminated the second branch of the if statement, and replaced the call to 
URLEncoder.encode(String) with a table lookup for the common case of the printable ASCII characters. When I have a little more time I can maybe figure out how to eliminate URLEncoder.encode(String) for the non-ASCII characters as well.


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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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