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Re: Internal entities removed from XML?

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• Subject: Re: Internal entities removed from XML?
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:48:31 -0500
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:36:51 +0000, Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...> 
wrote:

>
> Sigh, premature optimization.

[Kicking myself for exposing myself to further humliation]

Well, not to touch on yet another permathread, but to the best of my 
knowledge as a looker-over-of-shoulders of real implementers, this is not 
"premature" -- it's the hard-won knowledge from a lot of profiling that the 
buffer management needed by the possibility that some token will be an 
entity reference that needs to be expanded is a significant bottleneck in 
many implementations.

FWIW, I completely agree (e.g. with Sean) that this is seldom a bottleneck 
in applications, but it does seem to be a bottleneck in some industrial- 
strength infrastructure implementations.  That's a major reason given by 
the XMLP people in pushing-back on calls for SOAP to support the full XML 
spec.

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