xml2js is built on the sax streaming interface, but it doesn't present a streaming interface. It builds up a data structure representing the entire xml document.
If you have *lots* of xml to parse, you need to talk to the streaming directly, not through xml2js. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 03:23, Nuno Job <[email protected]> wrote: > No, saxjs cant be using all that memory. xml2js is probably doing some > buffering of its own that justifies that memory usage. > > I've seen the saxjs code and the buffers are very well kept, plus you > can set a limit after which buffers will be purged. > > Nuno > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Wan Li <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:04 PM, fent <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Have a look at https://github.com/isaacs/sax-js >> >> >> xml2js is built on top of sax-js. I even hacked version to utilize the >> streaming API provided by sax-js, but doesn't help too much. >> >> -- >>>: ~ >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
