Re: Was it something I said? (was: proper way to use Xerces for what I'm trying to do)

Hi Will,

"Will Sappington" <wsappington@xxxxxxx> writes:

> We haven't decided on which one yet, but libxml looks pretty good from
> what I've done with it so far.  If anyone has experience or knowledge of
> both and can shed some light on the advantages/disadvantages of either,
> I'd appreciate the insight.

One big difference between Xerces-C++ and Libxml2 is that the latter
does not have a functional XML Schema validator. I don't know if it
is important to you or not. Also note that much of the speed-up of
Libxml2 compared to Xerces-C++ comes from the fact that Xerces-C++
uses 2-byte characters (UTF-16) while Libxml2 uses 1-byte characters
(UTF-8). Since most performance tests that I am aware of are done
on XML files that are either ASCII or UTF-8, Libxml2 has a natural
advantage here. This is also something to consider depending on the
type of applications you are planning to build.


hth,
-boris


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