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RE: Handling very large instance docs

• To: "'Andy Greener'" <andy@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Handling very large instance docs
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:00:20 +0100
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It might be worth looking at implementations of STX, if you don't mind being
a bit bleeding-edge. STX is a language for describing XML transformations
that can execute in a sequential pass through the data.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Greener [mailto:andy@g...] 
> Sent: 29 April 2004 13:13
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  Handling very large instance docs
> 
> Before we dive into a local bespoke development, is anyone aware
> of any tools that can efficiently handle browsing and editing of
> very large XML documents (2-300Mb of repeating structure at the top
> end) on "normal" PC workstation hardware?
> 
> 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 suppose my other option is to dump the doc into an XML-native
> database and get at the fragments via a query mechanism. Any 
> suggestions
> gratefully received...
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