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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:22:48 -0400 (EDT)
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
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