Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Regular Associations

[Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:32:25AM +0400, David Tolpin wrote:
> I am proposing to validate it against a very small schema.
[...]
> In the worst case, that is, with the current implementation, it takes 1 second
> of processor time to determine the type of a 5 megabytes XML file that fails
> to match three RNG pattern productions.

And if I give you a 20 gigabyte stream?
*not* parsing is always faster than parsing...

Best,

Liam

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