What is the fastest way to load an XML file into MySQL using C#?

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What is the fastest way to dump a large (> 1GB) XML file into a MySQL database?

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Does this help at all? It's a stored procedure that loads an entire XML file into a column, then parses it using XPath and creates a table / inserts the data from there. Seems kind of crazy, but it might work.