> I'm happy to stand up as an example of someone who uses a custom Element > class. My specific use case is loading the project Gutenberg database, > which is a 210MB XML file. I created a custom Element class which I use > for the top-level element (a custom element_factory passed to > TreeBuilder distinguishes between the top-level element and all others). > The custom Element class doesn't add children, so it keeps ElementTree > from storing all of the elements its seen so far. On a system with 1 GB > of RAM, there was no other way to get the file to load. > > So, I would be one of those people who would flood in the complaints. :) >
Andrew, could you elaborate on your use case? Are you using cElementTree to do the parsing, or ElementTree (the Python implementation). Can you show a short code sample? Thanks in advance, Eli
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