XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Eric Wang wrote:
> This sentence in the documentation hints at such a capability using
> the Serializer class: "However, since this builds the entire document
> in memory, it can be problematic for large documents and less
> efficient than using a Serializer, which can stream the document." I
> just can't figure out how it would work looking at the documentation.
> So is the documentation wrong in this respect?

The Document object is still in memory in both cases. However in the 
toXML case there's also a large String that's also built in memory. With 
the Serializer, there's no single large string in memory.

It's likely not a huge distinction: probably O(4N) for the Serializer 
and O(5N) for toXML where N is the size of the serialized document.

A much more important reason for using Serializer is that it starts 
sending the document immediately. toXML waits until it's built the 
entire string.

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