>Doesn't really resolve the issue in a portable way...
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>... the right way would probably be to write a SAX handler rather than going through the DOM.
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>XMLAdapter is supposed to be a lot faster than XMLToCursor() (I haven't personally tested) I don't know whether they used SAX or just did the string handling manually).
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>Have you tried that?

No, I haven't tried that. I'll have to do some learning on that.