• To: Andy Greener <andy@g...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Handling very large instance docs
• From: Joel Bender <jjb5@c...>
• Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:01:34 -0400
• In-reply-to: <p06020415bcb6ad5e7762@[89.10.0.19]>
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>At the very least I need to be able to sequentially process a large
>document and extract an identified sub-tree (ideally denoted by an
>XPath expression) for run-of-the-mill tools to manipulate. I assume
>such a beast would need to be based on a SAX parser.

I did exactly that in Python.  I considered building an engine that 
could filter SAX events to those that match a limited version of 
XPath, but ran out of gas.  I ended up with a just regular SAX 
application.


Joel

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