At 4:48 PM +0100 4/15/04, Michael Kay wrote:
>(b) at user option, a parser may skip some or all well-formedness checks if
>a checksum is present and correct?
1. This won't work for large, streamable documents where the cost of
buffering is substantial.
2. How much does calculating the checksum cost relative to the cost of parsing?
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