[fpc-pascal]Searching a faster TXMLConfig

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:47:58 +0100 (CET)
> Michael.VanCanneyt at wisa.be wrote:

> > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I already asked the for a faster TXMLConfig.
> > > But before I implement a new one, I ask twice.
> > >
> > > TXMLConfig in xmlcfg.pp is a very easy component to handle config files.
> > > Since these files are in xml, which is nowadays a format for everything, I wonder, if there are some other implementations, which do not linear searches.
> > >
> > > Can anyone give me a hint/link for other xml implementation?
> > >
> > > Maybe the DOM implementation can be enhanced with some dynamic hash tables?
> > 
> > I think that this is the better approach; Improving the DOM implementation
> > and thus the existing TXMLConfig is of more benefit to anyone. Do you know
> > where the exact problem is ?
> 
> The childs of a DOM node are stored in a chained list. Accessing A/B/C
> will result in searching the childs of A for B and the childs of B for C.
> This could be improved, when the first sibling or the parent contains an
> hash index or a sorted array. Of course this would slow down inserting a
> node behind another node. But since the user adds nodes via A/B/C := Value
> this inserting operation does not appear. So, we can only gain.

BTree?