Parallel parsing of markup language data

Parsing XML (extensible markup language) data by performing the following operations: (i) dividing the piece of markup language into a plurality of pre-parsing segments; (ii) assigning the pre-parsing segment to a pre-parsing processor thread of a plurality of pre-parsing processor threads; (iii) determining any parsing division point(s) occurring in the pre-parsing segment so that data corresponding to a single tabular record is between each consecutive pair of parsing division points; (iv) dividing the piece of language into a plurality of parsing segments defined by the parsing division points so that each parsing segment corresponds to a single tabular record; (v) assigning the parsing segment to a parsing processor thread of a plurality of parsing processor threads; and (vi) parsing to generate a parsed tabular record corresponding to the parsing segment.