RE: [xml-dev] Parsing Performance

From
Martin Soukup <>
To
'David Megginson' <>,
Date
2003-02-24T12:02:37Z
ID
<000901c2dbfc$a11821b0$6c64a8c0@DOGGIE>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Parsing Performance
> Martin Soukup writes:
> 
>  > > Using an exception to terminate parsing falls into the latter
> category
>  > > unless, as I mentioned, you have an application that processes
>  > > thousands of XML documents every minute.
>  >
>  > Absolutely agree. Just that my application happens to do that :)
> 
> Excellent.  You have a very specialized application, then, and if the
> extra overhead of one exception per document is an unacceptable
> performance hit, SAX might not be the right interface for you.
> 
> Is it some kind of indexing engine, or are you reading live datafeeds?

Live data feeds. Yes, I think you might be right, but what option do I
have other than SAX?