XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> The current xom-1.1 CVS code is generally rather inefficient due to  
> heavy usage of String.intern() in Element and Attribute and has less  
> than optimal memory footprint. So, I'd like to float some ideas  
> centered around more efficient handling of (prefix, localName, URI)  
> tuples, both in space and time.
>
> What could be done to reduce memory footprint and simultaneously  
> improve performance, both when assembling a document in memory and  when 
> building it via Builder? Below is a commented prototype idea in  this 
> directionl, based on the "flyweight" pattern.

This seems reasonable on the face of it. I'd be willing to experiment 
with it. Ideally I'd want automatically runnable memory test cases that 
can be integrated into the test suite. That's hard to do, I now, but I 
think it's worth it.

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