XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> The other thing is that some days ago I submitted performance patches 
> for URI and PCDATA checks in Verifier. They slighly restructure the 
> algorithms, reducing memory allocation, some unnecessary calculations, 
> and making the methods shorter and easier to inline.
>
> These are actually much more important than the Attributes patch. Safe 
> some 30% is some cases. Did you have a look at those? You can get them 
> at http://dsd.lbl.gov/~hoschek/xom-patches

I'm not going to turn off the checks. That's just not going to happen. 
Correctness is more important than speed. You also seem to be assuming 
that if the Text is stored as a String rather than a byte array, it's 
impossible to have bad surrogate pairs. Sadly, that isn't true. Java 
Strings can be malformed UTF-16. :-(

I do plan to try some optimizations for the URI checking that may reduce 
a lot of redundant checks. That may solve your URI issues without 
eliminating the verifications.

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