Re: [xml-dev] XPath and performance

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> 
> I'm looking for a simplifed XPath-like language, one that is more performance-
> concious than full XPath (e.g., would be implementable with SAX or preferably, 
> a pull parser).

If you only want linear location paths (/foo/bar/baz) then dom4j[1] (for Java)
would work.  Register a pattern with a handler, and as the document is parsed,
your handler gets called for matching subtrees.

	-bob

[1] http://dom4j.org/