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Re: Internal entities removed from XML?

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• Subject: Re: Internal entities removed from XML?
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:22:53 +1100
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From: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>

> 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.

Oh, so their optimisation is to assume that references will expand
to the same (or fewer) characters.  I guess one could assume that
all element names had 1 character, and then complain about the
inability to use this splendid optimization because XML says we
can have more than one character in an element name.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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