XML Writers

xsData ships with multiple writers based on lxml and native python that may vary in performance in some cases. The output of all them is consistent with a few exceptions when handling mixed content with pretty_print=True.

LxmlEventWriter	XmlWriter implementation based on lxml package.
XmlEventWriter	XmlWriter implementation based on native python.

XmlWriter

A consistency wrapper for sax content handlers.

Benchmarks

Name (time in ms)                Min                   Max                  Mean                Median
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LxmlEventWriter-100          12.3876 (1.0)         14.0231 (1.02)        12.7359 (1.00)        12.6545 (1.00)
XmlEventWriter-100           12.4709 (1.01)        13.7136 (1.0)         12.7122 (1.0)         12.6516 (1.0)
LxmlEventWriter-1000        121.3230 (9.79)       127.0393 (9.26)       123.3760 (9.71)       122.5806 (9.69)
XmlEventWriter-1000         122.6532 (9.90)       125.3476 (9.14)       124.2966 (9.78)       124.6594 (9.85)
LxmlEventWriter-10000     1,223.8570 (98.80)    1,234.0158 (89.98)    1,230.9853 (96.84)    1,232.9678 (97.46)
XmlEventWriter-10000      1,228.0192 (99.13)    1,235.6687 (90.11)    1,232.3008 (96.94)    1,233.0478 (97.46)
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