XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> BTW, converting a XOM document to a DOM document is currently twice as 
> slow as it was in xom-1.0d25 (which was before the non-recursive 
> "experiment"):
>
> DOMConverterCVS:
> Builder.build took [s] = 41.969
> xom -> dom took [s] = 43.072
> dom -> xom took [s] = 28.727
>
> DOMConverterD25:
> Builder.build took [s] = 39.113
> xom -> dom took [s] = 22.135
> dom -> xom took [s] = 28.608
>
> Observed with a 30 MB file containing some 30000 records, each record of 
> the following form:

OK. I'll keep that in mind. It doesn't strike me as a crippling problem. 
An extra 21 seconds to convert a 30MB file is not particularly bad 
unless you need to do that every minute or two. (Do you?) DOMConverter 
is a bit of add-on functionality. It's not something that's going to 
affect a lot of other uses. In any case, Moore's Law should fix this 
problem for me in about 18 months. :-)

If you have a profilable test case to submit, I can play with it and see 
if there are any obvious speed-ups to be had. But I probably won't worry 
about this in the 1.0 time frame since it doesn't affect the API design 
or the correctness of the code.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu