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VTD-XML Investigation

VTD-XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/) is a high-performance XML processing model that deals with XML in a binary form, instead of the traditional text form.

VTD-XML parses an XML document and builds an internal data structure representing the entire XML document in byte[] form. Each "token" of the XML document is represented as the following 64-bit integer:

[1]

VTD stands for Virtual Token Descriptor.

VTD-XML Core Concepts

Unmarshalling a VTD-XML document

VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
 
// from existing byte[]
// true indicates namespace aware
vg.setDoc(byte[]); vg.parse(true);
 
// - or - 
 
// from file
vg.parseFile("old.xml",false)