XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>
> > Here are some more Serializer performance patches against xom-1.1-CVS
> > 1. improved UnicodeWriter.{writePCData, writeMarkup,   
> > writeAttributeValue) for strings that contain both portions that  
> > need  - escaping and others that do not need escaping. Example:  
> > foo bar     hello                      world foo bar
>
> This change did not show a measurable difference in my initial  
> tests. Possibly this is one of those areas where VM differences are  
> coming into play.

It depends on the document flavour: If there are such mixed portions  
(typically textual documents such as the bible or samples/data/ 
randj.xml) it makes a lot of difference, otherwise (e.g. data  
oriented periodic.xml or db10000.xml) it doesn't help much but it  
certainly doesn't hurt.

Wolfgang.