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Don Park writes: > > As for the memory issue, I have thought about some sort of LZW > > compression of all of the text in a document tree. This would > > save a lot of memory, but may slow down building the DOM tree a > > bit. Any ideas on this? > > > Your performance will suffer and memory problem still remains. Agreed. The overhead comes from the node objects, not from the text. The biggest hogs can be attributes, especially in the standard SGML DTDs which often include dozens of defaulted attributes for each document type. If you can optimise those (allocating nodes only on demand and then freeing them as soon as they're not needed), you're half-way there. The second biggest hogs are leaf elements which contain only text. If you can treat those as special cases and allocate only one object for each one instead of three (element node, node list, text node), then you're another quarter of the way there. PIs , doctype declarations, notations, etc. are rare enough that you don't gain much by optimising them. Your mileage on comments, entity references and CDATA sections may vary, but you're probably best skipping them or replacing them with their contents when you build the tree, unless your application has very specialised requirements. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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