From: Stefan Scholl <stesch@...>
Date: 2002-03-21T18:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.0

Hi!

How much slower did XPath get (as mentioned in the Changes section of
the webpage)?

I've written a program which parses some text files and generates a
XML file. It's a bit slow, but there was no need for profiling or
optimizing. That was yesterday with REXML 1.2.7. Ca. 1 3/4 minutes.

Today I've interrupted a test after about 8 minutes. The program seems
to go into an endless loop at a point where it has to find an element
with XPath, change an attribute of a child of it, and sometimes insert
a new element after that child.

Unfortunatly I've no time to write a small test. I'll test next
versions of REXML 2 and try to find time to write test code if the bug
isn't fixed.


Stefan