Speeding up xpath

Question

I have a 1000 entry document whose format is something like:

Answer 1

Try VTD-XML. It uses less memory than DOM. It is easier to use than SAX and supports XPath. Here is some sample code to help you get started. It applies an XPath to get the Entry elements and then prints out the n1 and n2 child elements.

final VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
vg.parseFile("/path/to/file.xml", false);

final VTDNav vn = vg.getNav();
final AutoPilot ap = new AutoPilot(vn);
ap.selectXPath("/Example/Entry");
int count = 1;
while (ap.evalXPath() != -1) {
    System.out.println("Inside Entry: " + count);

    //move to n1 child
    vn.toElement(VTDNav.FIRST_CHILD, "n1");
    System.out.println("\tn1: " + vn.toNormalizedString(vn.getText()));

    //move to n2 child
    vn.toElement(VTDNav.NEXT_SIBLING, "n2");
    System.out.println("\tn2: " + vn.toNormalizedString(vn.getText()));

    //move back to parent
    vn.toElement(VTDNav.PARENT);
    count++;
}