Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/20/07 16:01

Marian Steinbach wrote:

> I just did a very simple comparison of "manual XML writing" and
> XMLWriter (which is supposed to be very fast). Surprisingly to me,
> XMLWriter is even twice as fast as manual XML writing.

It is somewhat surprising. Skimming through the code, as far as I can see,
the only think that might be slowing it down is your use of:

."\n";

to append a line break to strings occasionally. This obviously makes the
generated XML a lot more usable, but it also forces PHP to attempt
interpolation on the string, as it's double-quoted. Does removing these
line breaks speed things up?

If these line breaks *are* what's responsible, I'm going to have to
seriously rethink my own (X|HT|XHT)ML generating code!

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