I have a fairly large perl script with many sections I've been using for years which parses some XML and inserts the data to mysql. Unfortunately the xml interpreter put the whole file into memory and parsed it and as the files are getting upwards of 500Mb now that's getting slow...so I started rewriting using XML::Parser::Pe rlSAX which seems to be much better..

However the problem I have is that the implementation of it is as an inline...