How to solve the XML parsing performance issue on Android

Question

I have to read a XML file with about ~4000 lines on Android. First I tried the SimpleXML library because it\'s the easiest and it took about 2 minutes on my HTC Desire. So I

Answer 1

Using the SAX parser, I can parse a 15,000-line XML file in around 10 seconds on my HTC Desire. I suspect there is some other issue involved.

Are you populating a database from the XML? If so, are you remembering to wrap your entire parse operation in a DB transaction? That alone can speed things up by an order of magnitude.