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Re: Parsing efficiency? - why not 'compile'????

• To: David Megginson <david@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Parsing efficiency? - why not 'compile'????
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:15:48 +0100
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David Megginson wrote:
>  > Why not come
>  > up with the concept of a 'compiled' xml document;
...
> This is not a new idea, but despite many bold attempts and breathless
> announcements, in five years no one has come up with anything that has
> caught on.

Yes, there is no standard, nor a COTS implementation in wide use.
However, I've seen various applications and frameworks rolling their
own. In particular Cocoon can store a SAX event stream in a sort
of "binary XML", for the purpose of caching intermediate results
in an XML processing pipeline. Admittedly, this usage is a bit
special.

J.Pietschmann

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