[jdom-interest] Re: Manipulating a very large XML file

[Michael Kay]

> Exactly.  That was the hardest thing for me to get around.
> But reducing the number of bytes per node in the representation
> of the tree structure from around 80 down to more like 8
> is the key to the whole thing.

Saxon's TinyTree uses 19 bytes per node - it's very hard to get below that.

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