1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/kxml2/io/KXmlParser.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/kxml2/io/KXmlParser.java
index 9ca555b..9c20e0d 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/kxml2/io/KXmlParser.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/kxml2/io/KXmlParser.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import libcore.internal.StringPool;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
 
@@ -106,6 +107,8 @@ public class KXmlParser implements XmlPullParser {
     private boolean unresolved;
     private boolean token;
 
+    public final StringPool stringPool = new StringPool();
+
     /**
      * Retains namespace attributes like {@code xmlns="http://foo"} or {@code xmlns:foo="http:foo"}
      * in pulled elements. Most applications will only be interested in the effective namespaces of
@@ -403,7 +406,7 @@ public class KXmlParser implements XmlPullParser {
         if (!returnText) {
             return null;
         } else if (result == null) {
-            return new String(buffer, start, end - start);
+            return stringPool.get(buffer, start, end - start);
         } else {
             result.append(buffer, start, end - start);
             return result.toString();
@@ -495,7 +498,7 @@ public class KXmlParser implements XmlPullParser {
 
         if (assignText) {
             if (result == null) {
-                text = new String(buffer, start, position - start - 1); // omit the '>'
+                text = stringPool.get(buffer, start, position - start - 1); // omit the '>'
             } else {
                 result.append(buffer, start, position - start - 1); // omit the '>'
                 text = result.toString();
@@ -882,7 +885,7 @@ public class KXmlParser implements XmlPullParser {
         }
 
         if (result == null) {
-            return new String(buffer, start, position - start);
+            return stringPool.get(buffer, start, position - start);
         } else {
             result.append(buffer, start, position - start);
             return result.toString();
@@ -1016,7 +1019,7 @@ public class KXmlParser implements XmlPullParser {
 
             // we encountered a non-name character. done!
             if (result == null) {
-                return new String(buffer, start, position - start);
+                return stringPool.get(buffer, start, position - start);
             } else {
                 result.append(buffer, start, position - start);
                 return result.toString();