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It is also worth noting that you can usually do SAX-style parsing in most XML parsing libraries that are normally associated with DOM style parsing and conveniences like XPath selectors. For example, Nokogiri does SAX and it is *very* fast: http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/SAX/Document.html As a related question, when folks do SAX-style parsing and need to select highly conditional and deeply nested elements (think getting MODS title data only when a parent element's attribute matches a condition and it is all nested in a big METS wrapper), how are you keeping track of those nesting and conditional rules? I have relied on using a few booleans that get set and unset to track state, but it often feels sloppy. -steve On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > but I have gotten noticeably better > performance from Saxon/XSLT2 than PHP with DOMDocument or SimpleXML or > nokogiri and hpricot in Ruby.