[jdom-interest] Manipulating a very large XML file

[Jim McMaster]

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On Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:23 PM, jdom-interest-bounces at jdom.org
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> How about using SAX?  You don't load the entire document, you
> just handle
> events as a node is visited, and if you are interested in
> that node you can
> save it in memory.  I've never actually done that, but that
> is the other way
> of doing things and the reason to do it that way is for your
> reasons.  
> 

If you decide to use a streaming parser, check out StAX, which is a
pull parser rather than a push parser like SAX.  It is much easier to
use.
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Jim McMaster
mailto:jim.mcmaster at comcast.net


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