Rolf Kluge wrote: > > // > // For building org.jdom.Document. > // > FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(filename); > SAXBuilder b; > b = new SAXBuilder("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser"); > Document jdoc = b.build(in); > > /* This takes about 12 sec. */ It'd help if you buffered the input stream. -jh-