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Which XML open-source parsers is the fastest


Question posted by: bloon (Guest) on July 20th, 2005 09:40 AM
I know there are three most popular open-source XML parsers. They are expat,
libxml, and Xerces. All three are cross-platform. Does anybody test these
three parsers? Which one is the fastest when loading and parsing large XML
files? Thanks.
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Jürgen Kahrs July 20th, 2005 09:40 AM
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#2: Re: Which XML open-source parsers is the fastest

bloon wrote:
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> I know there are three most popular open-source XML parsers. They are expat,
> libxml, and Xerces. All three are cross-platform. Does anybody test these
> three parsers? Which one is the fastest when loading and parsing large XML
> files? Thanks.[/color]

http://piccolo.sourceforge.net/bench.html

Google will also find others for you.
I prefer Expat. Not only for its speed but
also for its stability. The API is stable by
now and the implemenation also.

While writing regression tests, I found that
Expat has no problems with XML tags that have
10000 attributes. But libxml ...
 
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