Why is XML so slow!!?

[matt t]

Ok I am fustrated. I am really excited that I fiqured out a way to write over 40 webpages in very little time using XML. Every page is the same except for song lyrics; its a webpage me and my girlfriend are using. So basically I have one webpage and based on what song the user clicks on that datafield in the xml file is called and written in a table row on the file.

Like this:

<xml blah ></xml>
<table datasource="#xml file">
<tr>
<td id="song"><span datafield="song in xml file"></td>
</tr>

.... links down below user clicks on a link -> onclick =changesong('songname');
</table>

<script>
changesong(songname)
{
variablename=songname

song.innerHTML="<span datafield" + variablename + "></span>"
}

My code works, but this is just psuedocode of what it basically does, without retyping it.

The problem is XML is so slow. Would SQL be quicker to retrieve songs from? Page takes forever to load !