XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Oct 12, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>
>
> > Plus in the Attribute constructor. And don't forget the caches  
> > and  other tricks inside the Verifier, they are the most  
> > significant ones...
>
> Those are a little higher up in the proverbial fruit tree. :-) The  
> patches you've proposed to the constructor seem reasonable, but my  
> measurements show those changes actually slowing things down. That  
> may be something screwy on my system, or something weird in my  
> measurements, since it certainly seems like the changes should  
> speed things up; but until I'm more confident I'm not going to  
> commit those.

It's mostly about avoiding string concatenation implied by  
getQualifiedName() in several places.
The other issue, not caching the result of indexOf(), may be a result  
of you not testing namespaced attributes (e.g. SOAP, WSDL), or simply  
the poor OSX VM.

> The Verifier changes are simply too complex for me to be  
> comfortable integrating them at this point. They may yet be added  
> in 1.1.1 or 1.2; but I don't want to risk any late-breaking bugs.

Ok.

Wolfgang.