Why is xml.dom.minidom so slow?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Paul Boddie [mailto:paul at boddie.net] 
> 
> martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis wrote in message 
> news:<m3n0mimxe7.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>...
> > "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.
> 
> And cDomlette produces document representations that can be 
> manipulated using standards-compliant APIs, too, for those of 
> us that care about that kind of thing. Hats off to Fourthought! :-)

Quick question... I've got benchmark results for most of the options, but I haven't been able to track down cDomlette yet (google didn't turn up any obvious links). Does anyone know where I can download it (and the documentation :-) I'll post my benchmarks in a couple of days...

-- bjorn