Re: [OT] XML::DOM

[Paul J. Lucas]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> But if performance is absolutely key in XML parsing/processing, then you
> really need to be looking towards Orchard, which we're co-developing with
> Ken MacLeod (author of the PerlSAX bindings and XML::Grove). Current tests
> reveal that its about 10 times faster at parsing than any Perl tree based
> parser ...

        FYI, I recently released my of XML::Tree.  My benchmark tests
        against XML::Parser show mine to be 12 times faster.  I wrote it
        as sort of a challenge (internal to my company).  The code is
        based on my similar HTML::Tree.

        A current caveat of mine is that it's not a compliant parser.
        It doesn't currently handle Unicode, CDATA sections, ELEMENT
        declarations, and probably some other stuff.  But, if you're
        processing straight-forward XML files, like config files, it
        certainly works, and fast.

                http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/xml_tree/

        - Paul