XML: Process large data

Question

What XML-parser do you recommend for the following purpose:

The XML-file (formatted, containing whitespaces) is around 800 MB. It mostly contains three types of tag

Answer 1

As Bouman has pointed out, treating this as pure text processing will give you the best possible speed.

To process this as XML the only practical way is to use a SAX parser. The Java APIs build in SAX parser is perfectly capable of handling this so there is no need to install any third party libraries.