Re: parsing a huge xml document

Liam Quin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:47:47AM +0800, subs subs wrote:
> >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

You'd have to measure for your data probably.

Also, if the XML is simple & machine-generated, it's deliberate
in the design of XML that you can use regular expressions for
simple parsing, and sometimes that's just fine.

Liam


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