XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
<elharo AT ibiblio.org>wrote:

> Off the top of my head, I think attributes are provided as simple strings
> to XOM by the SAX parser, and XOM stores them as simple strings. I don't
> think I've had occasion to figure out how Java handles 25MB string objects.
>
> Which parser are you using?


The default (whatever Java  7 / javax provides);

If it's not the default, XOM may be verifying
> all the PCDATA in the attribute, which could take a while. This shouldn't
> be happening unless you've swapped parsers; but it's worth making sure that
> you're using fastAddAttribute instead of addAttribute i the parser does not
> look like a bottleneck.
>

Thanks. I am now extracting the strings by crude hack and will try in a few
hours.

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>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I am using XOM to parse SVG files which use
> > <image xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,iVB..."/>
> > to hold binary images such as PNGs. Some images require 25 Mbytes of data
> > and take minutes to read in through Builder().
> >
> > Is there any workaround? I'd be happy simply to skip the very large
> images
> > - would SAX be faster?
> >
> >
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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