[Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries

[Baptiste Carvello]

Le 16/12/2011 07:53, Stefan Behnel a écrit :

> Additionally, the documentation on the xml.sax page would benefit from
> the following paragraph:
> 
> """
> [[Note: The xml.sax package provides an implementation of the SAX
> interface whose API is similar to that in other programming languages.
> Users who are unfamiliar with the SAX interface or who would like to
> write less code for efficient stream processing of XML files should
> consider using the iterparse() function in the xml.etree.ElementTree
> module instead.]]
> """
> 

A small caveat to note about iterparse(), which I otherwise like a lot:
when processing very big data (I encountered this with a region-wide
openstreetmap XML dump), you have to remove the processed nodes from the
root element. Otherwise, its memory footprint increases with the size of
the document.