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While I don't usually reach for XML when I need a data transport format this particular criticism is somewhat unwarranted. SAX parsing of XML is pretty cheap co

by zaphar 6y ago

While I don't usually reach for XML when I need a data transport format this particular criticism is somewhat unwarranted. SAX parsing of XML is pretty cheap computationally. The problem is cultural more so than technical. Pretty much every language ships with a DOM parser. Not all of them ship with a SAX parser. As a result DOM is the more predictably available choice. DOM Parsing is both computationally and memory expensive though which I think is where XML gets this reputation from.

rjkennedy98 6y ago
> SAX parsing of XML is pretty cheap computationally. SAX parsing is also very complex programatically. Who wants to switch on various SAX events when handling a XML document? No, we want the full thing parsed into an object. I've spent a decent amount of time in the XML world and I've only seen people use SAX when performance was a large concern or when parsing enormous XML documents.