Just as Axis uses SAX instead of DOM to parse incoming messages, I was wondering whether it would be significantly faster to build an outgoing XML message by appending tags and text to a StringBuffer, sort of like SAX in reverse, rather than using the DOM API and doing appendChild, etc.
I would like to hear people's opinions on whether this is worth doing, and if it is, I'd like help in the one thing I haven't figured out yet. Since we need to return a DOM Element to the client, is there a way to convert a String of XML elements into a valid DOM Element? Any ideas or feedback on this would be greatly appreciated! Richard
