xml-dev - Re: DOM serialization

["Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>]

Because DOM is an interface, you don't know details of its
implementation.
It may be that the cost of generating or parsing XML is small compared
to the constant cost of accessing the DOM data or building the DOM data.

You cannot save a DOM tree simply by saving every byte between
two addresses, in particular (unless the implementation allows this and
provdes some non-DOM mechanism).

If the binary format of the document preserves lots of  pointers, then
it may
be that the binary form is larger than the XML form. This may take more
time to parse (i.e., deserialize), even though binary.

Rick Jelliffe
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Tangi Vass <tangivass@compuserve.com>
  To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  Date: Monday, 11 October 1999 22:30
  Subject: DOM serialization


  Hi,

  Is it possible to serialize/deserialize DOM trees into/from binary
format?
  I have multiple XML and XSL files, and don't to want to spend time
parsing them for each XML/XSL combinaison.

  Tangi



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