Xmerl performance

[Sean Hinde]

On 14 Jan 2005, at 16:56, Alexey Shchepin wrote:

> Hello, Sean!
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:09:55 +0000, you said:
>
>  SH> Hi, We used the expat binding which was written as part of the 
> ejabberd
>  SH> project. Thanks to Alexey Shchepin for writing it and making it 
> available
>  SH> (under the GPL).
>
>  SH> We adapted the SAX type model of the ejabberd expat driver to 
> create a DOM
>  SH> with something like the following code. I can't quite recall 
> which bits of
>  SH> this were used but it might provide a guide.
>
> This code uses pretty old verion of expat driver (AFAIR earlier than 
> Oct 2003),
> small update is required for version from ejabberd-0.7.5 (replace 
> xmlstart,
> xmlend, xmlcdata, and xmlerror with ?XML_*).  But i'd recommend to use 
> version
> from ejabberd cvs version, it includes interface for parsing entire 
> element and
> works faster.
>

Great, thanks for the update - I'll check it out.

Sean