XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> It's interning *all* strings (but not with String.intern(), 
> but rather 
> with a better application-level scheme). A large fraction of 
> the binary 
> data is essentially an array of unique string occurances, stored in 
> compact form. Then there are byte level tokens identifying node types 
> and compact byte-level integer indexes referring to the string table.

Sounds very similar to Saxon's TinyTree which is also apparently achieving a
factor of around 4 in many cases. And that's without any compression or
interning of text content, even for whitespace.

Michael Kay