Java Android Very Large Xml Parsing

I have got a very large xml file with categories in one xml file which maps to sub categories in another xml file according to category id. The xml file with only category id and n

Solution 1:

Use SAX based parser, DOM is not good for large xml.

Solution 2:

Maybe a SAX processor would be quicker (assuming your App is slowing down due to memory requirements of using a DOM-style approach?)

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