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Re: Schema style and parser performance

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• Subject: Re: Schema style and parser performance
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:33:20 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200304301246.NAA26606@s...>

richard@c... (Richard Tobin) writes:
>I wouldn't expect any noticeable difference.  In XSV we generate a
>finite-state machine for content models, with the states having
>pointers to the element declarations and the element declarations
>having pointers to the type declarations, so there is no looking-up of
>element or type names in the usual case (there is for wildcards of
>course).

I wouldn't expect a huge performance difference on the computer side.  

I do see large differences in how humans work with these different
forms, and transitions from Russian Doll to Venetian Blind seem to lose
a lot of people along the way.  Reading schemas that mix styles can be
an interesting challenge.

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Simon St.Laurent
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