Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> Not the parsing part, because there is no way that you can parallelize
> reading an XML file and stream parsing it in a reasonable way (you would
> have to stuff all parse events into a queue anyway to make sure they are
> processed in the correct order).
> 
> For the rest it depends on what you do with parse results.  For that we
> would need more detail.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>   robert

It's pretty much the parsing that I need to speed up, so it looks like 
I'll have to live with it for now.  Thank you very much for the 
response.
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