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Re: XML processing experiments

  • From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
  • To: xml-dev@i...
  • Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 12:27:51 +0700

david mckelvie
David McKelvie wrote:

> We started off doing something like this in LTNSL, but stopped doing
> filemapping (a) because it wasn't very portable and

What systems did you have problems with? Win32 supports it and I thought
most modern Unix systems now did.

> (b) either you do
> some tricky decisions about when you free these pointers into the
> source or it makes reading huge corpora like the 2 gigabyte BNC corpus
> impossible which we wanted to be able to do.

Yes, I can see that's a problem.  How common do people think XML files
bigger than 1 gigabyte or so are going to be?  How hard would it be do
use external entity references to split it up into files smaller than 1
gigabyte?

James



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