Checklist: XML Performance

 

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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman
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May 2004

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How to Use This Checklist

This checklist is a companion to Chapter 9, "Improving XML Performance"

Design Considerations

Check Description
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the appropriate XML class for the job.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider validating large documents.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Process large documents in chunks, if possible.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use streaming interfaces.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider hard-coded transformations.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider element and attribute name lengths.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider sharing the XmlNameTable.

Parsing XML

Check Description
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use XmlTextReader to parse large XML documents.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use XmlValidatingReader for validation.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider combining XmlReader and XmlDocument.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif On the XmlReader, use the MoveToContent and Skip methods to skip unwanted items.

Validating XML

Check Description
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use XmlValidatingReader.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Do not validate the same document more than once.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider caching the schema.

Writing XML

Check Description
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use XmlTextWriter.

XPath Queries

Check Description
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use XPathDocument to process XPath statements.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid the // operator by reducing the search scope.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Compile both dynamic and static XPath expressions.

XSLT Processing

Check Description
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use XPathDocument for faster XSLT transformations.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider caching compiled style sheets.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider splitting complex transformations into several stages.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Minimize the size of the output document.
Ff647691.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Write efficient XSLT.

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