Speeding up xpath

Question

I have a 1000 entry document whose format is something like:

Answer 1

I had similar issue with the Xpath Evaluation , I tried using CachedXPathAPI’s which is faster by 100X than the XPathApi’s which was used earlier. more information about this Api is provided here : http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xpath/CachedXPathAPI.html

Hope it helps. Cheers, Madhusudhan