XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

Well, I worked a little more on improving the binary xml codec for 
small messages/documents.
Here are the preliminary results from CVS, after correctness testing:

* Example Interpretation:
 * <ul>
 * <li>Small documents: Results translate, for example, to ping-pong
 * round-tripping of typical 500 byte SOAP request/response message 
documents at
 * a rate of 25000 msg/s, compared to 2500 msg/s with XOM (excluding 
network
 * latency). Consequently, XML serialization and deserialization are 
probably
 * nomore your application's bottleneck.</li>
 *
 * <li>Large documents: When having a main-memory cache of several 
thousand 1
 * MB bnux documents, each containing highly structured complex data, 
one can
 * deserialize, XQuery and serve from the cache at a rate of 40 
documents/s,
 * compared to 5 documents/s with XOM.</li>

Wolfgang.