On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:38:54 you wrote: > xmlEventParse() is intended for handling files that we don't want to keep > in memory. The branches parameter does make it easier to deal with > sub-trees as the document is being parsed. And within these branches one > can use XPath. Very interesting. I'll check it out.
> So how big are the files you are working with? Suprisingly, reading > 70Mb files into memory and doing XPath can be quite fast. I need to access repeatedly data in multiple files larger 600 MB ... quite the fun. One more question: is it possible to run xmlEventParse and whenever a given tag is hit get the bit offset of the tag for indexing purposes? Thanks for any hints, Joh
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