XML Processing Performance in Java and .NET

The processing of XML documents is assuming growing importance in modern-day IT infrastructures. The most well-known use case is in the implementation of web services that rely on XML as the underlying data exchange format. Not only are the arguments and attachments involved in web service calls transferred as XML messages in the SOAP format, all the associated infrastructure describing web services starting from the overall description specified in WSDL (Web Services Description Language) down to the message types (XML Schema) are expressed in XML. [via]

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