kalyanasundaram wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:00 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> kalyanasundaram wrote: >>> So which would be better? XPath or linear traversing? >>> I dont know much about XPath implementation. (Do they not traverse >>> atleast once?) The file size is about 500 KB. :) >> That sounds rather small. Just parse it in and walk through it, that's what >> I'd do. >> > Really! I thought 500 Kb is bigger. How much it would be able to handle?
I ran an lxml.etree benchmark in Python once that sucked in 3MB of XML (the old Jewish testament) and then traversed it to find verses that contain a specific text. Took about 110 milliseconds on my machine. http://codespeak.net/lxml/performance.html#a-longer-example Stefan _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
