How to read a xml-file sequentially

Thomas Weholt thomas at gatsoft.no
Tue Oct 30 07:17:37 EST 2001


Hi,

I need to read a xml-file sequentially, piece by piece, when a given end-tag
to a given start-tag is found, the xml-data inbetween the start and end are
sent to a different method for processing, then the next piece of data is
read, sort of like old-school record-based files.

Only the needed data is kept in memory.

How can this be done using preferrably expat or sax? No DOM cuz the files
are huge.

Thomas





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