[XML-SIG] PyDOM performance

[Greg Stein]

If the DOM is not a specific requirement, and you simply need to translate
XML into a usable form for Python, then you may want to look at my qp_xml
module at http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/

Cheers,
-g

--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

On 25 Aug 1999, Carey Evans wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I've been rather disappointed with the speed when trying out the DOM
> support in the XML 0.5.1 package.  To construct a tree of the fairly
> simple document at
> 
>     http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/diary/hols199901.xml
> 
> took about 45 seconds.  I tried out the CVS tree and got this down to
> 17.8 seconds, which is quite an impressive improvement by itself, when 
> PyDOM doesn't seem to have changed much.
> 
> Looking at this with the profiler, dom/core.py spends a *lot* of time
> in __getattr__ and __setattr__.  I didn't have anything better to do,
> so I rewrote these methods and got the time down to 11.7 seconds.
> I've attached the patch to do this below.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
>   Is what I'm doing in this patch actually working, or am I on the
>   wrong track?
> 
>   And, is it worth doing anything to PyDOM, or would I be better off
>   looking at 4DOM, for example?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> 	 Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
> 
> 	       "This is where your sanity gives in..."
> 
>