Andy Clark wrote: > > Michael Mason wrote: > > So it's better to iterate over the children by hand than to use a > > NodeList? I've been noticing that (for example) removing all the items > > in a NodeList seems to take longer than I'd hoped. > > Yep, NodeLists are really bad for performance. Definitely use the > getFirstChild/getNextSibling paradigm.
Beware, this assertion is true for Xerces but it may be false for other implementations though. In xerces children are stored in a linked list, so getNextSibling is clearly the winner. On the other hand, with an implementation where children would be stored in an array, using the NodeList interface would be better. -- Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group
