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I'm trying to write a library that interfaces to (a rather small) online database. As the database is largely static, I've persuaded the developers to give me an XML dump of the whole thing, which I'm replicating in an SQL database on the device.

This almost works well. The problem is, the Android XML parser in DocumentBuilder is horribly, horribly slow. I'm seeing XML parsing speeds of an utterly pathetic 5kB/second; this is on an emulator running on a 3.2GHz machine, *without* the debugger.

My download-and-parse code is as follows:

---snip--- HttpClient http = new HttpClient(); GetMethod method = new GetMethod(uri);

http.executeMethod(method); InputStream data = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbf.setValidating(false); dbf.setNamespaceAware(false);

Document document = dbf.newDocumentBuilder().parse(data); ---snip---

Am I doing anything wrong? Is there anything I can do to speed things up?

(Also, using DocumentBuilder.parse(uri) throws an exception complaining that I haven't provided an InputStream or a Reader. Is this normal?)