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I committed my changes into trunk (1.4!) that enable us to use an alternative XML parser in eXist. I tried the fast Piccolo XML Parser for Java but other JAXP compliant parsers should work as well.

Note that the default Xerces jars must remain in lib/endorsed.

• download the Piccollo jars from
• install Picollo.jar into the lib/user directory
• set the JAVA_OPTIONS system environment: export JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dorg.exist.SAXParserFactory=com.bluecast.xml.JAXPSAXParserFactory"

and start existdb with bin/startup.sh ; in the logging you'll see that then Piccolo parser is actually used.

Need to know

• When validation is switched on, Piccolo automagically switches to a validating parser: xerces in most cases.

Known issues

• While loading the mondial example data the mondial dtd is still resolved, resulting in an exception.

• On quite some code locations SAXParserFactory is called directly. Need to figure out what makes sense to update.