XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:


> The other aspect is that repetitive query parsing and optimization often 
> takes considerable time which would make XPath navigation less appealing 
> over hand crafted tree navigation code. For example, consider complex 
> queries over many tiny documents. Here, parsing and optimization can be 
> a large fraction of overall execution time. Minimizing XPath/XQuery 
> overhead leads to fewer arguments in favour of manual navigation.

Remember: the goals are correctness, simplicity, and performance, *in 
that order*. Simplicity trumps performance, and passing in a string is 
much simpler than preparing statements. If that turns out to be a 
bottleneck, well then, there's NUX and Saxon. :-)

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