[XML-SIG] I am confused...

[Uche Ogbuji]

> > My computer has only 64M of RAM - so I was not able to measure anything
> > because  the system just dig into swap...
> 
> That is another good reason to use SAX-based processing: In a
> DOM-based approach, you typically need to build an internal
> representation of the entire document first.

Not in 4Suite 0.10.2 you won't.  DbDOM is undergoing some serious surgery.  It 
will have pretty nifty swapping of nodes in and out of memory courtesy of 4ODS.

Of course, it will be slower than even 4DOM, but as ever, that's the trade-off.


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