XML parser: fast/slow?

[Henk]

Dear Pythonians,

I am using the minidom from the xml.dom package. I am using the
parse-functionality written in that module to parse xml-files into a
DOM-tree. The larger the file the slower the process, of course.

But I wonder wether there are modules/packages out there which use a
C-implementation of the parsing which could speed up things
significantly. Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks for your time,

Henk