XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> I've considered doing something like that in XOM. The problem is you can 
> be passed something that isn't a BufferedInputStream but is chained to 
> one. For instance, a GZipInputStream chained to a BufferedInputStream 
> chained to a FileInputStream. Then you end up with double buffering for 
> no good reason.

"The best is the enemy of the good."

TagSoup tries to optimize two common cases: passing an unbuffered
InputStream, where the performance will increase drastically, and
passing a BufferedInputStream wrapped around an InputStream, where the
performance will get no worse.  The fact that more complex cases are

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