why is sax parsing faster than dom parsing ? and how does stax work?
问题 somewhat related to: libxml2 from java yes, this question is rather long-winded - sorry. I kept is as dense as I felt possible. I bolded the questions to make it easier to peek at before reading the whole thing. Why is sax parsing faster than dom parsing? The only thing I can come up with is that w/ sax you're probably ignoring the majority of the incoming data, and thus not wasting time processing parts of the xml you don't care about. IOW - after parsing w/ SAX, you can't recreate the