Re: [tlug] Good XML Parser

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

David Stibbe writes:

 > I never blamed SAX, but I was just wondering if Xerces might have
 > difficulties parsing large (35 mb) files.

Are you sure you're using a native SAX implementation?  The whole
point of SAX is to avoid building a full DOM representation; that
could take a long time and a lot of memory.  If you're just using a
SAX API wrapped around DOM, you are going to be slow.