[XML-SIG] dom implementations

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> > Using Uche's 640k document, I get the following timings:
> > 
> > minidom: 6.4s
> > 4DOM: 45s
> > pDomlette: 8.9s
> 
> That chunky 4DOM.  Who wrote that anyway?

One thing you have to keep in mind is that 4DOM include features not
available in other implementations, such as DOM L2 Events: each time you
manipulate nodes, events get propagated up the DOM tree. This is a huge
overhead, but it is so useful when displaying a DOM in a gui...
 
> > cDomlette fails since it does not support createElement (pDomlette
> > only has create*NS operations, so I added None as the namespace
> > everywhere).
> 
> Yeah.  We're still debating adding mutation to cDomlette.  This thread makes 
> me inclined to do so.

This we would consider a good thing. We are considering switching from
4DOM to pDomlette for the kernel of Narval (after 1.0 is released), but
cDomlette would be even better.


Alexandre Fayolle
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