Better performance with libxml2 or NSXMLParser on the iPhone?

Question

I\'m curious what your solution is for high performance XML parsing on the iPhone is, given its limited amount of CPU power. I have reviewed the XML Performance App that App

Answer 1

You could always take a look at my replacement for NSXMLParser. It reads the XML data from a stream rather than keeping it all in memory, and passes it 1KB at a time into libxml (where NSXMLParser hands in everything in one go).

Source code is available on github and my writeup on the memory aspects are on my blog.