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• Subject: Re: Re: Hostility to "binary XML"
• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:18:19 +0000 (GMT)
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• In-reply-to: <830178CE7378FC40BC6F1DDADCFDD1D103B76A7F@R...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>> I think that if you really wanted to, you could get 99% of 
>> this speed up anyway.  Don't check the characters, check the 
>> name against the DTD, and then only if it isn't declared 
>> check the characters and then fake a declaration so it will 
>> be quick next time.

>Then you are requiring a schema.

No, as I said, you fake a declaration for undeclared elements.
Something equivalent to <!ELEMENT foo ANY>.  If you aren't doing any
kind of validation, it can just be a list of element names that
you've seen.

I doubt that it would make much difference.  Looking up the name is
likely to take longer than checking that the characters are all name
characters.

-- Richard

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