I think this depends of the levels of nesting and complexity, but a libsax based parser is not "incredibly" slow.
A Dom based parser could be, but also depends of number of nodes and nesting.
A Dom based parser could be, but also depends of number of nodes and nesting.
Love sax by the way. I just switched over one of our sites to use a sax based parser because the default rails .to_hash was choking on 100MB+ XML files.