python + xml performance compared to Java and C++ ??

[Philipp Weinfurter]

Markus Jais <mjais at web.de> wrote:
>hello
>does anyone have experiences how fast xml processing
>and XSLT processing with python (using PyXML and 4Suite tools)
>is, compared to Java and C++ (using the apache tools, like
>Xalan, Xerces....)

dunno about java, but the C++ versions of the apache tools are
much much faster than anything you can do with python. but that's
kinda obvious, since XSLT processing ist quite CPU intensive.
same goes with building large DOM trees. i guess with SAX you'd
be better off, using pure python. 

philipp
(who thinks that XSLT is the ugliest language ever designed)