Along the lines of Dave's original recommendation, here is a big leg up on using StAX (not a spelling error... StAX = same idea as SAX to make long story short)
http://jochem.vandieten.net/tag/stax/ The thread Jochem is referring to in his post was mine, and I used his code and example to give me the ability to quickly and simply process a large daily xml file roughly 295 mb in size, among others. If you are accustomed to the processing times that go with large xml files, you can knock that down by perhaps an order of magnitude or more. This a vastly superior method on many fronts. -- --m@Robertson-- Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358331 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm