[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter.isWhiteSpace

[Alex Rosen]

> Does the isWhitespace method contain any sensitive string encoding in
> the way it uses the 4 whitespace markers and the indexof?
> The indexof method is very speed prohibitive.
> I can do the same thing using char comparisons and it will yeild about
> 10X performance increase.  This adds up with big messages.  I guess the
> question is how does the 16bit characters react to literals like '\t'
> compared to "\t" Strings.  I don't see any gotchas.  What does everyone
> else think?

Sounds good to me. There shouldn't be any difference between looking for
'\t' as a char or "\t" in a String. "\t".charAt(0) == '\t'.

> If you want to take a look at escapeElement, there is also some
> improvement if we not add a character every loop, but add chunks of
> data.  This probably applies to escapeAttribute.

Also seems like a good idea, though probably less of a difference.

Alex