Does ECS use less memory than DOM?

Hi -

We need to continuously generate several large XML
documents for our application. We were considering
using DOM (or dom4j, etc) to first create a DOM
document in the memory and then serialize it to a
file. But we are concerned about memory and performace
issues related to DOM. So we are considering ECS. 

Is it really a better idea to use ECS instead of DOM
to greate XML documents (from memory/performance point
of view)? From what I understand, ECS is just a cool
way of using StringBuffer.append() operations. Am I
correct? 

Also, any idea on when ECS 2.00 will be out?

Many thanks. (and have a nice Xmas too!)

PS: Also, a little more documentation might be
helpful.

Jim


Thanks


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