On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Deepa Venkatesan wrote:
> I am wondering if any of you have encountered such
> problems and how you went about resolving it. Using
> DOM parser is safe when it comes to maintaining the
> identical XML structure particulary when I need to
> make slight modifications on the original XML. But how
> do I overcome the problem of the HUGE time taken to
> convert the XML into a DOM tree. Any help is
> appreciated.
Always keep it in the DOM tree. Avoid parsing it as much as possible...
the XML serialisation format is a nightmare with all that
delimited-sequences-of-characters stuff that requires running along the
whole thing with a state machine to make any sense of it all, so avoid it!
ABS
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