Re: [xml] DOM vs xmlReader

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:22:58PM -0800, Prashant R wrote:
> My question is that , given this scenario , does xmlreader still save me
> memory ,compared to DOM  ( in terms of storage allocated for parsing xml) as
> bytes from the stream would need to still
> be cached to decipher node information.

  DOM builds the full tree in memory. The reader building one a
fraction of the tree in memory at a given time. The reader should
save memory. Testing should confirm this.

Daniel

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