Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>
>
>> Not sure what you're basing this on, Rich, but it doesn't match what
>> I've seen. See the results at
>> http://xbis.sourceforge.net/performance.html, for instance, where
>> generating text XML from a parse event stream takes on average about
>> the same amount of time as parsing the text to get back the parse
>> event stream
>
>
> That sounds suspicious. Parsing has a lot more overhead than just
> writing out text strings. I suspect the real comparison here may be
> between a system that does full well-formedness checking and one that
> doesn't. Many systems can blast XML out pretty quickly using printf or
> equivalent. They don't necessarily need to call a method for each tag
> or text node or check well-formedness on output.
>
guess it depends on whether the well-formedness is done in advance by a
person or on the fly by a computer :) there was another thread somewhere
that pointed out the advantages of using a computer, but i suspect most
have found the person just a good 80/20 fit for specific cases
rick
