[dom4j-user] XPATH

[pramod]

 Hello ,       I am developing an application, which compares data from xml  files with size around 1mb each . currently i am using  th traditional DOM api i.e org.w3c.xml.in Java I want to know whether using Xpath will help me in increase the speed , as we can directly specify the paths of the nodes while searching . should i go for XPath  or use the same Dom apis to traverse various nodes in the document.    Thanks   Pramod