Re: [tlug] Good XML Parser

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:42:40 +0100
> "David Stibbe" <dstibbe@example.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Recently I have been able to work on my dictionary application again
>> and finished an xml parser for  JMDict, using Xerces C++
>> (http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/). I chose that API particularly for
>> it's SAX abilities.
>>
>> However, the parser is extremely slow when parsing JMDict completely,
>> is this because of SAX,  the size of JMDict (35 MB) or something else
>> (the machine I tested it on is a 1.6 GHz machine) ?
>>     
>
> I don't think the problem here is SAX. If you put a sleep() into all
> callbacks, sure the program will be slow. Is it because of the
> architecture of SAX? Not really.
> Nobody will be able to answer your question. You should to profile your
> code. If it really turns out that xerces is at fault then you will
> probably need to ditch java as well and do it in C.
>   

If he is using xerces-c it is the C++ version not xerces-j the java
version.  Either way as  Botond said you will need to profile.  You
might also try looking at a lighter weight less conformant library like
libxml2[1]

Edward

1. http://xmlsoft.org/