>I have always been of the opinion that, at least for certain classes of
>documents, validation could be used to speed the process up. If certain
>VCs were considered fatal errors, then character checking would be
>reduced for start tags (i.e., instead of checking that a character is a
>valid XML character, you would check if the name is valid according to
>the DTD).
I think that if you really wanted to, you could get 99% of this speed
up anyway. Don't check the characters, check the name against the
DTD, and then only if it isn't declared check the characters and
then fake a declaration so it will be quick next time.
-- Richard
