Efficient and Effective XML Processing in Java

Extracting a value from an XML document costs, at its core, two operations: locating the span of bytes where the value lives and converting it to the type you want. Turning 219.80 into a BigDecimal is a scan to the element and a six-byte parse — nanoseconds, allocating next to nothing. Almost no Java code pays that price. It pays a different one,... Weiterlesen