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RE: XML Parsing using DOM parser

• To: "'Deepa Venkatesan'" <willumail@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML Parsing using DOM parser
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:42:27 -0000
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

>            Kindly share your thoughts.. I recently
> wrote a code to parse an XML file containing catalog
> content (as big as 10MB) using DOM parser. The
> performance has been miserable particularly when the
> XML file size increased.

An XML document is not a database.

With 10Mb, you can use the DOM representation as a kind of in-memory
database provided it lives in memory permanently, but you can't load the
whole thing into memory each time you do a transaction. That's simply not
the way XML is designed to be used.

Mike Kay
>

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