Performance probs when creating large XML docs

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I have some code that takes data from a file and puts it into an XML format.I am using the Microsoft DOM (CreateElement) and VB. As I increase theamount of data in the file, the longer it takes for the XML to be produced.For example, 100 records in the file takes 4 seconds to parse into a XMLfile. 600 records in the file takes 112 seconds to parse into a XML file.Ideally, I would hope every 100 records would take 4 seconds so for 600records it should take 24 seconds.Any suggestions on how to improve performance