RE: XML Parsing for large XML documents

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Fox
Peter and Ed- Thanks for the replies. Your suggestions are very good. Here is my problem, though: I don't think that I can process this document in a serial fashion, which seems to be more akin to SAX. I need to do a lot of node hopping in order to create somewhat complex data structures for i

Re: XML Parsing for large XML documents

2004-02-26 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:47:08AM -0500, Robert Fox wrote: > Scanning an entire document of this size in order to perform very specific > event handling for each operation (using SAX) seems like it would be just > as time consuming as having the entire node tree represented in memory. > Please

Re: XML Parsing for large XML documents

2004-02-25 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Rob: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:31:07PM -0500, Robert Fox wrote: > 1. Am I using the best XML processing module that I can for this sort of > task? XPath expressions require building a document object model (DOM) of your XML file. Building a DOM for a huge file is extremely expensive since i