RE: [xml-dev] genx - consensus items

> > Perhaps StartStartTag or StartTagOpen or whatever can return an
opaque
> > element reference (could be a pointer to an internal structure or
simply
> 
> I don't think there is any performance penalty in just comparing the
> strings.

It's a pretty big hit.  XML is all about string comparison.  Any
implementation that cared about perf would presumably atomize strings
that were subject to frequent comparison.