xml.dom.minidom memory usage

[Stefan Behnel]

Dan wrote:
> I'm using python's xml.dom.minidom module to generate xml files, and
> I'm running into memory problems.

Then take a look at cElementTree. It's part of Python 2.5 and is available as
a separate module for Python 2.4. It's fast, has a very low memory profile and
if you ever decide to need more features, there's lxml to the rescue.

You might also consider streaming your XML piece by piece instead of creating
in-memory trees. Python's generators are a good starting point here.

Stefan