Re: parsing a huge xml document

>Depends on what do you mean by "parse". I mean, sure you want to
>extract the tags and their attributes and contents, but what then?

I have to extract the tags and attributes and insert the values into
database tables. Any ideas what would be the memory requirements for 4GB xml
doc if I use XML::twig. I would also like to know the memory requirements
for XML::SAX

Thanks

2009/9/10 Jenda Krynicky <[email protected]>

> From: subs subs <[email protected]>
> > Iam new to perl-xml parsing. I need to parse a huge xml document (about
> 4gb)
> > Can anybody suggest which perl module will be efficient in terms of
> memory
> > and speed
>
> Depends on what do you mean by "parse". I mean, sure you want to
> extract the tags and their attributes and contents, but what then?
>
> Maybe if you tell us what do you want to do with the data we can give
> a more detailed advice.
>
> Anyway, Mirod already advertised his XML::Twig, so I'll likewise
> advertise mine XML::Rules. If you need to skip parts of the XML,
> tweak the structure generated from other parts and handle (whatever
> that means) the parts as soon as they are parsed, XML::Rules can
> help.
>
> There's a few examples in the example directory in the distribution
> and a few more on Perlmonks.org
>
> Jenda
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