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Tim Bray writes: > Distinguish between <!DOCTYPE > and validation. I do *not* agree > that parsing DTD syntax takes up 2/3 of a parser. On the other hand, > it's reasonable to expect a validating parser to be twice the size > of a non-validating one. Note that nearly all the existing > validating parsers parse DTD syntax just fine. -T. >From my hazy recollection, parsing everything inside <!DOCTYPE> added about 10% to AElfred's size, and that included keeping information from the declarations (but not validation per se). The biggest size bloat -- at least 30% -- came from having to work around inefficient Java library classes by adding custom buffering and hash-table routines. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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