What is the fastest XML Parser?

savj14

I have been trying to use SimpleXML but it just doesn't seem to be very quick.

I am trying to parse out an external REST XML. If I simply goto the URL via web browser the data is pulled in less than 10 seconds. Parsing using XML and echoing the data takes me about 40-50 seconds.

I'm not sure if this is slow or fast as far as parsing is concerned. Just looking to see if I should try a different way of parsing.

NogDog

I don't know how it compares speed-wise, but I find that I prefer using the [man]DOM[/man] classes for parsing XML, so it might be worth a comparison.

scrupul0us

NogDog;10900658 wrote:
I don't know how it compares speed-wise, but I find that I prefer using the [man]DOM[/man] classes for parsing XML, so it might be worth a comparison.

really? maybe its ignorance but I love the simplicity of SimpleXML (no pun intended... honestly)

NogDog

scrupul0us;10900841 wrote:
really? maybe its ignorance but I love the simplicity of SimpleXML (no pun intended... honestly)

I don't know why, it just doesn't "click" with me. Then again, I've not used either a whole lot, but for whatever reason I seem to "get" the DOM classes/methods more easily.

Weedpacket

One key advantage of the DOM interface over the SimpleXML one (which, personally, I find horrible and ad-hocishly incomplete) is that the former is an industry standard and thus (theoretically) supported by every XML processor. So, among other things, it's been much more heavily play-tested.