java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.read(Files.java:3231) at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes(Files.java:3288) at ...

This bug is only reproducible starting with release 7.1.0+. It does not reproduce with 7.0.0. Make sure, to test with the latest PMD version. We are finding that the Copy Paste Detector no longer ...

Yeah, it won't be trivial, because SAX is totally different.<BR><BR>But if you can use Java 5+, I'd use the XML streaming API instead. It's more like traditional file I/O as opposed to the event-based ...