XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Mike Colbert <mbcolbert AT yahoo.com>]

--- Mike Colbert <mbcolbert AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > In that case use a SequenceInputStream to add the root element start and 
> > end-tags before you read in the data. You really don't want to read 
> > everything into a String first.
> > 
> 
> Excellent advice!
> 
> So, it turns out I had neglected to wrap my Readers in BufferedReaders, as
> John
> advised.  They were in there before, but I changed things around and they
> fell
> out somewhere along the way.  So many, many thanks to John for reminding 
> me. 
> This alone made an order of magnitude speed improvement.
> 
> I also dropped the String, and used the SequenceInputStream to write in the
> root element, and this is of course a superior approach.  Although, the time
> savings aren't as noticeable; I would have to do a micro-benchmark and we 
> all
> know how that goes, so I won't even bother.
> 
> In any case, it's flying now.  Many thanks to all!
> 
> Mike

In case you're scratching your head over that, I should say that I wrapped the
StringReader in a BufferedReader, per John's advice, and that made it an order
of magnitude faster.  (I also wrapped some other Readers elsewhere in the 
code,
but that's not important right now.)

Then, I eliminated the String (and the StringReader and its BufferedReader,
altogether) and passed in a SequenceInputStream to XOM, instead.  This was 
also
an order of magnitude faster, and perhaps even a little faster than that.  I
hope that's more clear.  Now, I have a deadline to exceed ... 

Thanks,
Mike