Micro-benchmarks are usually not a good way to evaluate systems. That said, using a bytemap array can be very fast while also providing readable code. Let's say you want to test that string contains ...
Jaxen is an open source XPath 1.0 library written in Java. It is adaptable to many different object models, including DOM, XOM, dom4j, and JDOM. It is also possible to write adapters that treat ...