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From: Manuel Collado <m.coll...@domain.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to speed up XML reading
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:33:34 +0200
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El 12/09/2012 14:52, Ramon F Herrera escribi�:
>...
> Actually, I think that the solution to my performance problem is to
> implement (via SAX?) the reading of the whole XML file and insert the
> variables in my own data structures. That must speed up the variable
> retrieval substantially BUT an XML guru is required, which I am not.
>
> In the meantime, I downloaded libxml and will see how well it
> performs. Perhaps that is the solution to my problem. Being written in
> C, it should be faster than Xerces-C++

You could try Expat, written in C.

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Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado