String interning (WAS: SAX2/Java: Towards a final form)

[David Megginson]

Miles Sabin <msabin at cromwellmedia.co.uk> writes:

> Not just a DOM. Quite a few people are sitting SAX on top of
> all sorts of data-structures which don't necessarily make any
> interning guarantees. And don't forget database queries.

With database queries you usually already know the names and you're
querying just for the contents:

  select name, age from PersonalInfo where status = 'active'

and then

  <person>
    <name>Jane Smith</name>
    <age>27</age>
  </person>

I didn't get the "person", "name", or "age" strings out of the
database: they're hard-coded in my filter.


All the best,


David

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