XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Dan Diephouse <dan AT envoisolutions.com>]

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> > > Also, what's your experience wrt. underlying Stax impls? e.g.  Sun,  
> > > BEA, ...
> > Don't use the BEAs (== the RI) as its slow, has weird bugs, and  
> > things like creating an XMLStreamReader/Writer from a Source aren't  
> > implemented. Haven't used Sun's. I *highly* recommend Woodstox  
> > (http://woodstox.codehaus.org) as its fast (about 33% faster then  
> > the RI from my non scientific tests), it works, and its very well  
> > supported.
>
>
> I have a pretty detailed performance testbench here. When your  
> codebase has stabilized and is deemed reliable, I'll be happy to run  
> it through, comparing it with a variety of other XOM or non-XOM  
> models. No need to rush tough :-)

The code is very simple. If you get a START_ELEMENT you create an 
Element, etc. I don't know that there is a whole lot of room to mess up. 
I've used the code in the past, but am not using it right now only 
because my project is included in an Apache project and they aren't down 
with the LGPL. Even if there were bugs in it, they'd be minor.

All that to say, I think the code is pretty stable/reliable, I'm just 
not using it at the moment. I'd be very interested in performance of 
Stax vs. SAX in XOM and how the different stax implementations compare 
if you'd be willing to run it through.

- Dan

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