XML parser performance

Hello,

I was wondering if anybody had any experience in regards to the relative performance (i.e., speed) of the different Java XML parsers out there. Specifically,

javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse() vs. any others.

My goal is to reduce the amount of time needed to parse ~1000 XML files (avg size 3kb) and I have done some tests that lead me to conclude that the rate-limiting step is not the file i/o (surprisingly).

Is there any particular XML parser that people favor?

Thanks,

ckl

[545 byte] By [chitkwanlin] at [2007-9-26 12:38:32]