See below... On 3/17/07, Lokeya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to index the content from XML files which are basically the metadata collected from a website which have a huge collection of documents. This metadata xml has control characters which causes errors while trying to parse using the DOM parser. I tried to use encoding = UTF-8 but looks like it doesn't cover all the unicode characters and I get error. Also when I tried to use UTF-16, I am getting Prolog content not allowed here. So my guess is there is no enoding which is going to cover almost all unicode characters. So I tried to split my metadata files into small files and processing records which doesnt throw parsing error. But by breaking metadata file into smaller files I get, 10,000 xml files per metadata file. I have 70 metadata files, so altogether it becomes 7,00,000 files. Processing them individually takes really long time using Lucene, my guess is I/O is time consuing, like opening every small xml file loading in DOM extracting required data and processing.
So why don't you measure and find out before trying to make the indexing step more efficient? You simply cannot optimize without knowing where you're spending your time. I can't tell you how often I've been wrong about "why my program was slow" <G>. In this case, it should be really simple. Just comment out the part where you index the data and run, say, one of your metadata files.. I suspect that Cheolgoo Kang's response is cogent, and you indeed are spending your time parsing the XML. I further suspect that the problem is not disk IO, but the time spent parsing. But until you measure, you have no clue whether you should mess around with the Lucene parameters, or find another parser, or just live with it.. Assuming that you comment out Lucene and things are still slow, the next step would be to just read in each file and NOT parse it to figure out whether it's the IO or the parsing. Then you can worry about how to fix it.. Best Erick Qn 1: Any suggestion to get this indexing time reduced? It would be really
great. Qn 2 : Am I overlooking something in Lucene with respect to indexing? Right now 12 metadata files take 10 hrs nearly which is really a long time. Help Appreciated. Much Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Issue-while-parsing-XML-files-due-to-control-characters%2C-help-appreciated.-tf3418085.html#a9526527 Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
