Re: Simple approaches to XML implementation

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:32:46 -0500

>Bear in mind that, no matter how much or how little the application is
>interested in, the parser has to chew its way sequentially through the
>whole darned XML document. In a way, the only efficiency issue is how
>much it "remembers" en route. And whether it can stop because it knows
>it has found the element, entity reference, or whatever, that the
>application told it to sniff out.

At least, unlike SGML, and XML parser can delay entity resolution.