On Dec 4 2007, Andy Yates wrote:
>be wanting. It more depends on is there a good enough XPath >implementation that can handle the XML files we'll be pushing through it >(why is it I think the answer is no). > And why is it I think you are right? :-) Some of the XML files used by bioinformaticians can be horrendously large and at least some of the XML packages do appear to behave like they bring the whole file into a memory representation before allowing you to work on it. I think memory use and performance was a major factor in the current BJ implementations adopting an event-based model even though it's more difficult to use usually. Regards, DH -- David Huen Dept of Genetics University of Cambridge CB2 3EH U.K. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
