just made a basic structure of a sax parser to speed this up

rpm_to_cve_parser/sax_parser.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require 'ox'
+
+class SaxParser < Ox::Sax
+
+  def initialize
+    @elements = []
+  end
+
+  def start_element(name)
+    #puts "start: #{name}"
+  end
+
+  def current_element
+    @elements.last
+  end
+
+  def end_element(name)
+    #puts "end: #{name}"
+  end
+
+  def attr(name, value)
+    #puts "  #{name} => #{value}"
+  end
+
+  def text(value)
+    #puts "text: #{value}"
+  end
+
+end
+
+file = File.read('./rpm-to-cve.xml')
+handler = SaxParser.new()
+
+Ox.sax_parse(handler, file)