Why is xml.dom.minidom so slow?

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> moving the tree building from Python to C++ can easily buy you 10x,
> no matter what parser you're using.

Indeed; this is what makes 4Suite's cDomlette so fast.

Of course, if you use a C++ parser (say, Xerces), and then create
wrapper objects around the tree that Xerces produces, you lose some of
the advantages by creating more objects than necessary.

Regards,
Martin