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> But in practice the pull parser still iterates through each branch in > the parser, but might only return certain parts. Actually, that's not an assumption I would make. At the point the start-tag of an element is encountered and the parser is directed to skip it, I believe all the parser essentially has to do is pattern match the text for start- and end-tags of same-named elements. When the end-tag count matches the start-tag count, you start generating events once more. There's no parsing going on of the skipped content, so it's not iteration. It's grepping.
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