Xerces DOM parser incredibly slow?

Question

Currently, I am trying to clean up an HTML file using JTidy, convert it to XHTML and provide the results to a DOM parser. The following code is the result of these efforts:<

Answer 1

Even when not validating, a XML parser needs to fetch the DTD, for example to support named character entities. You should look into implementing an EntityResolver that resolves the request for the DTD to a local copy.