Fabien Wernli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:48:07PM -0500, Mark Plaksin wrote: >> >> Also, do you have a feel for why doing the operation via XML is so slow? >> Is it the nature of XML? Some specific problem with your XML library? >> Does your Perl script ever fail or miss some important data? >> > > When you do full XML processing, you need to load the entire tree into > memory, say just for discarding some columns. Whereas if you sequentially > parse the XML is much faster and less Memory hungry.
And there are no sequential XML parsers? And thus XML is only good for small amounts of data? I know little about XML but find this hard to believe :) -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
