> If your worried about the performance of the parser, just setting
> the attributeList to null would be faster than doing the
> AttributeListImpl::clear() which would cause a removeAllElement()
> on each of the underlying member vectors. If your cranking away
> with the parser, chances are the low priority gc task wouldn't be
> fired while your doing this, unless you hit your memory limit.
You're confusing AttributeListImpl with AttributeList -- AttributeList
is an interface, not a class. While AttributeListImpl is available
for those who want it (such as a client program that needs to copy a
few attribute lists), most SAX drivers provide a more efficient
implementation, which is often an adapter of the parser's own, native
interface.
All the best,
David
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