RE: [ANN] XSDBench XML Schema Benchmark 1.0.0 released

> That must have been some pretty tight integration of XML 
> parsing and schema-based validation. For example when you 
> validate, say a float, as an element value then you have to 
> look for both legal float characters as well as '<'. ...
> Also I tend to believe that most existing parsers don't have 
> this architecture.

I would also question whether the performance benefits are worth the loss of
an architectural boundary between components (the parser and the validator)
that ought to be kept separate from a software engineering perspective. In
general, my experience of systems development says that you tend to regret
doing such things within a couple of years.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/