Re: Decreasing XPath Performance on large files?

[Thomas Maschutznig]

Thank you all for your suggestions and explanation. I could already  
increase performance a lot by skipping some very simple XPath  
expressions and using the (w3c) DOM Nodes and Elements instead. Some  
of these expressions must have been evaluated several thousand or ten- 
thousand times and voilà instead of more than 20 hours I am down to  
one hour on JDK 1.5. Using JDK 6 speeds things up some more.
Now I know and understand why SAX would've been a faster way to go...
Cheers,
 thomas