10GB XML Blows out Memory, Suggestions?

gregarican greg.kujawa at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 15:28:12 EDT 2006


10 gigs? Wow, even using SAX I would imagine that you would be pushing
the limits of reasonable performance. Any way you can depart from the
XML requirement? That's not really what XML was intended for in terms
of passing along information IMHO...

axwack at gmail.com wrote:
> I wrote a program that takes an XML file into memory using Minidom. I
> found out that the XML document is 10gb.
>
> I clearly need SAX or something else?
>
> Any suggestions on what that something else is? Is it hard to convert
> the code from DOM to SAX?




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