[libxml-devel] Better performance from find or parsing?

[Sean Chittenden]

> Say I have about 20 tags to find in a document and manipulate. What is
> going to be the faster approach, reading through the entire tree and
> handling the matching tags as it comes across them, or doing a #find
> on the document for each tag.


Neither.  Using a SAX interface is the fastest, actually.  Using both  
of the methods you suggest require creating a DOM tree.  -sc


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