2005/11/26, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Of course it "can" be abreviated. What I'm saying is that abreviating it > is not going to give you the benefit that you think it will. It will not > speed up parsin, it will not make the file load faster. It will save > disk space, but I doubt that disk space is the primary concern for most > people who have documents.
I'd say that smaller files are faster than bigger. Off course they are. Memory is slow. Disks are slow. Hashing long strings is slower than hashing short ones (for symbol table look up). Parsing shorter files takes less time than parsing longer ones. It takes longer time to start large programs as well. The effect of this ought to be fairly easy to check with any XML parser. Create a large (so the parsing time is easy to measure) XML file with a few different short tags and time the parser. Replace all tags with long names and check the parsing time again. Repeat the tests a few times to get more reliable values. /Henrik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
