XML-schema aware parsers

[Mark Grossmann]

I am really new to XML parsers. AFAIK most (DOM) XML parsers use XML schemas only for validation. Are there parsers that use XML schema to optimize in-memory representation of XML-trees?

For example I have a zillion of small XML documents loaded in memory (for fast access), all instances of the same XML-schema. Optimally the structural information of corresponding XML-trees should not be replicated zillion times.

Thanks,
-- Mark

 

[Martin Honnen]

I am really new to XML parsers. AFAIK most (DOM) XML parsers use XML schemas only for validation. Are there parsers that use XML schema to optimize in-memory representation of XML-trees?

For example I have a zillion of small XML documents loaded in memory (for fast access), all instances of the same XML-schema. Optimally the structural information of corresponding XML-trees should not be replicated zillion times.

I do not implement parsers, I only use them but as far as the W3C DOM Level 2 goes there is no schema related information in that object model. And at least for the Java binding the W3C DOM is only modelled by interfaces so you can't tell what structure is below implementing those interfaces.