XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

Allow me to speculate that the xom source snippet below might have to 
do with the just mentioned profiler and/or client VM problems, or 
similar reasons:

   public Attribute(
      String name, String URI, String value, Type type) {

        prefix = "";
        String localName = name;
        // Warning: do not cache the value returned by indexOf here
        // and in build
        // without profiling. My current tests show doing this slows
        // down the parse by about 7%. I can't explain it.
        if (name.indexOf(':') > 0) {
            prefix = name.substring(0, name.indexOf(':'));
            localName = name.substring(name.indexOf(':') + 1);
        }

Wolfgang.