If you are using jython, then you might also want to consider VTD-XML, which is a lot easier to use and faster than SAX, native XPath support may be useful too
http;//vtd-xml.sf.net On Jan 12, 12:13 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > amadain, 11.01.2010 20:13: > > > > > > > I have an event log with 100s of thousands of entries with logs of the > > form: > > > <event eventTimestamp="2009-12-18T08:22:49.035" > > uniqueId="1261124569.35725_PFS_1_1340035961"> > > <result value="Blocked"/> > > <filters> > > <filter code="338" type="Filter_Name"> > > <diagnostic> > > <result value="Triggered"/> > > </diagnostic> > > </filter> > > <filter code="338" type="Filter_Name"> > > <diagnostic> > > <result value="Blocked"/> > > </diagnostic> > > </filter> > > </filters> > > </event> > > > I am usingxml.saxto parse the event log. > > You should give ElementTree's iterparse() a try (xml.etree package). > Instead of a stream of simple events, it will give you a stream of > subtrees, which are a lot easier to work with. You can intercept the event > stream on each 'event' tag, handle it completely in one obvious code step, > and then delete any content you are done with to safe memory. > > It's also very fast, you will like not loose muchperformancecompared > toxml.sax. > > Stefan- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
