Re: [xml] getElementsByName is available?

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

kalyanasundaram wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:00 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> kalyanasundaram wrote:
>>> So which would be better? XPath or linear traversing?
>>> I dont know much about XPath implementation. (Do they not traverse
>>> atleast once?) The file size is about 500 KB. :)
>> That sounds rather small. Just parse it in and walk through it, that's what
>> I'd do.
>>
> Really! I thought 500 Kb is bigger. How much it would be able to handle?

I ran an lxml.etree benchmark in Python once that sucked in 3MB of XML (the
old Jewish testament) and then traversed it to find verses that contain a
specific text. Took about 110 milliseconds on my machine.

http://codespeak.net/lxml/performance.html#a-longer-example

Stefan