David Huen wrote: > 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? :-)
Lol :) > > 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. > It is one of my biggest concerns that a huge DOM model + BioJava model is going to take up a lot of memory. However if a SAX, StAX (either one) or DOM based parser is hidden behind a good enough interface hopefully the implementation used can be up to the user. That said these goals maybe too different & distant for us to be able to do it. Andy _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
