Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi

I have written a utility in Java (using JAXP) which parses an .xml file. This xml file
contains references to n number of other xml files. From here I direct the parser to each of these individual xml files where it searches for elements with a particular tag name, lets say 'node'. As in,

<node name= "Parent A">
<entry key="type" value="car"/>....
</node>
.....
.....
<node name= "Parent B">
<entry key="type" value="Truck"/>
</node>

I am collecting all the 'nodes' from these n xml files and then finally building a single xml file which will contain only the 'node' and its attribute 'name' value. As in,

<node name="Parent A"/>
<node name="Parent B"/>

In most cases n is a number greater than 100. Each of these n xml file have LOC exceeding 2 to 3000.

NOW the issue is, the xml parser takes more than an hr to go through just 10 - 15 xml files , collects the 'node', and building a new DOM object which I finally get published using Xml Transformer.

In effect , it beats the whole purpose of writing this utility as no programmer will stick around for an hr to to watch it happen/finish.

Apart from maybe further fine tuning my logic, which I've almost exhusted, is there any 'faster' way of doing the whole thing.

Please reply. Any comment would be greatly appreciated.

I am using JAXP 1.3 specs to parse and build the DOM.