• To: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>
• Subject: Re: Pushing all the buttons
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:04:36 -0400
• Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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At 10:59 PM -0700 9/23/03, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:


>It's clear that transformations of XML into alternative 
>representations can result in substantial increases in performance 
>over conventional text parsers (at least for Java), and can also 
>result in substantial reductions in document size.

People keep claiming that, but I've yet to see convincing evidence of 
it. At most, I see benchmarks based on one or two documents with very 
particular structures. I've never seen any data for these binary 
formats based on a broad range of XML documents of varying sizes.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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