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Re: XML Parsing using DOM parser

• To: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: XML Parsing using DOM parser
• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:35:01 +0000 (GMT)
• In-reply-to: <20020102182957.95889.qmail@w...>

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Deepa Venkatesan wrote:

>     I am wondering if any of you have encountered such
> problems and how you went about resolving it. Using
> DOM parser is safe when it comes to maintaining the
> identical XML structure particulary when I need to
> make slight modifications on the original XML. But how
> do I overcome the problem of the HUGE time taken to
> convert the XML into a DOM tree. Any help is
> appreciated.

Always keep it in the DOM tree. Avoid parsing it as much as possible...
the XML serialisation format is a nightmare with all that
delimited-sequences-of-characters stuff that requires running along the
whole thing with a state machine to make any sense of it all, so avoid it!

ABS

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                               Alaric B. Snell
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