Joseph,

Thank you for clarification.
Maybe anyone can share some numbers / guidelines fro personal experience on
when use / do not use this option

Thanks,
Pavel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Kesselman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Defer node expansion
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, 11/20/2002 at 02:46 ZE2, Pavel Ausianik 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could somebody explain when the defer node expansion should 
> be used in
> > xerces 2?
> 
> 1) When you don't intend to examine the entire document, this 
> choice can 
> save memory and parsing time.
> 
> 2) When latency (time before you can access the first node) is more 
> important than throughput (time before you can access the 
> last node), this 
> choice can make your program more responsive.
> 
> Hence, deferred node expansion tends to be particularly helpful when 
> processing only part of a large document. But it may cost 
> performance when 
> processing all of a small document. That's why it's optional.
> 
> 
> (Note the similarity to  Xalan's "incremental DTM" mode.)
> 
> ______________________________________
> Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research
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