[XML-SIG] The fastest XML parser around

[Hannu Krosing]

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 10:34, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
>   Which are not the only parser out there. Libxml2 also ship with a Python
> interface as part of the recent releases and apparently also beats both
> Microsoft and Xerces (Java and C) parsers for raw parsing speed. So your
> claim is a bit "light".

for libxml2 it ran > 50 times faster than minidom when building an
in-memory DOM tree

> Libxml2 is also released under the MIT Licence making it suitable for any use.
> 
>   For the record, libxml2 parsing speed on a 1.2GHz Duron was:
>      - 16 MBytes/s generating empty SAX callbacks
>      - 6 MBytes/s when building a full DOM tree.
>      - the conformance against the W3C/NIST regression test suite made
>        of 1800+ documents is done as a Python script calling the libxml2
>        bindings and takes approximately 3.5 seconds.

Is this test script available anywhere ?

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Hannu