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

I tried my data (about 600 records) using the XML parsing app apple provides. Found the libxml2 to be much faster than NSXMLParser. I switched to libxml2 (though I find it a bit more complex to implement than NSXMLParser, it suited my purpose well)

The same example tried with about a 100 records does not have much difference in both the implementations.

Answer 2

I've used Objective-Xml. This is another drop in replacement for NSXMLParser. It gave me about a 15 second improvement on a file that was taking over 1 minute to parse. Still too slow though.