Re: [xml-dev] best xml parser to use

--- Stefan Tilkov <> wrote:

> On Sep 6, 2006, at 10:08 PM, K. W. Landry wrote:
> 
...
> In terms of performance, I would expect StAX and SAX
> to be roughly  
> equal. Something hardcoded that is not XML-aware
> will be a lot  
> faster, but much more error-prone.

Latter yes, former not necessarily. What I found out
was that reading a stream using JDK BufferedReader(),
reading line by line, was slightly slower than parsing
content as XML. Your mileage may vary, but regular
stream parsing is surprisingly fast nowadays (30 - 40
MBps on typical desktop machines),

-+ Tatu +-


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