How to search HUGE XML with DOM?

[Stefan Behnel]

Sullivan WxPyQtKinter wrote:
> My search needs:
> 1. Search and return all the record (an element) with specific id.
> 2. Search and return all the record whose child nodes has a specific id
> or attribute.

Try lxml, which is based on the libxml2 library. The current SVN version has
support for xml:id through the XMLDTDID function. It simply returns an XML
tree and an ID dictionary.

http://codespeak.net/lxml

Stefan