[jdom-interest] Huge slowdown when reading > 15 xml files

[Bradley S. Huffman]

> I suspect all the entity chars cause the parser to call addContent()
> repeatedly and these repeated string concatentations bog down the
> system.
> 
> The solution is probably to use a StringBuffer during the build process
> and only when something other than addContent(String) is called to
> convert the StringBuffer to a String.
> 
> If anyone wants to tackle this, feel free.  I can't do it right this
> second.

Already be done, it's just hiding in jdom-wip.