Re: Fast validating XML parser

• From: Nicholas Sushkin <nsushkin@...>
• To: "Llacuna, Phillip V" <phillip.v.llacuna@...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:51:43 -0400

On Monday 22 October 2007, Llacuna, Phillip V wrote: 

> We need a very fast validating XML parser and was wondering if anyone
> has any suggestions? Our project involves one main XML file with about
> 1200 supporting XML files (each about 50KB or less). Our current
> environment calls on a java script to validate each file against the
> DTD, but it is painfully slow to process the complete project. 

Phillip,

You'll need to quantify what you mean by painfully slow. If your project 
can't complete under a couple of minutes, it may mean that your parser is 
trying to do some DNS lookups and waits for a network timeout each time.

> We 
> suspect that that the overhead in creating the java environment each
> time the script is called is slowing down the process. I have searched
> (and am still searching) the web for a good alternative. Any
> suggestions?

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