XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> Looks like a bug in the java-1.6 SAX XML parser. A heap dump on OOM  
> shows that there is a (single!) instance of  
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLStringBuffer that consumes  
> 40 MB of memory in a single char[] array.
>
> The bug disappears when using an official Apache Xerces release  
> instead of sun's weird xerces variant, for example via
>
> java -Xmx10m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/ 
> Users/hoschek/unix/java/share/apache/xerces-2.9.0/
>
> I suggest using this route as a workaround.

Interesting. Have you reported this to Sun?

Also, are you sure it's not a Xerces version issue? Could have been a 
bug in Xerces prior to 2.9.0 if something earluer ships with the JDK.

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