Re: parsing a huge xml document

Liam Quin wrote:
>
> Interesting!
>
> Others have mentioned that SAX is slow (although I think one of
> SAX readers is based on libxml and shouldbe quite fast), 

In fact, one parsers based on Expat is any faster (ExpatXS).

> and
> that the documentatoin is needlessly difficult and obscure, which
> I'd 100% agree with.  

Here is the Perl SAX docs:
http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/perl-sax/sax-2.1-ref.html

If you can refer to the most needlessly difficult and obscure parts I'm
happy to change them :)

When memory is not a constrain the DOM or even XSLT is faster than Perl
SAX (C vs. Perl land). If the memory matters and the processing is
fairly simple Perl SAX can be the right tool.

Petr
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