Re: [xml-dev] Efficient Parsing of large documents of size 1GB

At 10:00 AM +0530 5/14/03, Purushothama Ranganatha wrote:
>I get XML messages/documents :Size varies from 1KBk to 1GB.
>My application need to parse these XML messages.
>How do I go about this. Should I use DOM / SAX / PULL parser.


Today there's no choice in most languages: use SAX. POssibly tomorrow 
pull parsers will be mature enough to do the job too. (Possibly 
that's true today if you're using .NET) DOM simply can't handle the 
high end of your documents' size.
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