VTD-XML is a new open source XML processing API that provides a great alternative to SAX and DOM that doesn't force you to trade processing performance for usability. Find out why this Java-based, non-validating parser is faster than DOM and better than SAX.
by Jimmy Zhang
October 20, 2004
TD-XML is a new, open-source, non-validating, non-extractive XML processing API written in Java. Different from current XML processing technologies, VTD-XML is designed to be random-access capable without incurring excessive resource overhead. One key optimization of VTD-XML is non-extractive tokenization. Internally, VTD-XML retains the XML message in memory intact and un-decoded, and tokens represents tokens using starting offset and length exclusively.
VTD-XML's tokenization is based on the Virtual Token Descriptor (VTD) core binary encoding specification. A VTD record is a 64-bit integer that encodes the token length, starting offset, type and nesting depth of a token in XML.
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TD-XML is a new, open-source, non-validating, non-extractive XML processing API written in Java. Different from current XML processing technologies, VTD-XML is designed to be random-access capable without incurring excessive resource overhead. One key optimization of VTD-XML is non-extractive tokenization. Internally, VTD-XML retains the XML message in memory intact and un-decoded, and tokens represents tokens using starting offset and length exclusively.
