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Re: Editing huge files; recommended Java parsers?

• To: David Byrden <David@B...>
• Subject: Re: Editing huge files; recommended Java parsers?
• From: Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@e...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:28:45 -0700 (PDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.1.6.0.20040924075133.03213a20@m...>

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, David Byrden wrote:

> For editing files of around 200MB without unusual
> power or memory consumption, what is recommended
> for the Java platform?
> The edits are probably local, so the obvious approach
> is to build a memory tree for specific subtrees of the
> document. What parser would help? We'd like to do as
> little custom programming as possible.

You might want to look at the XML Cursor API provided by BEA XMLBeans. It
allows you to walk through a document, token by token, and as needed create
DOM-like objects of fragments. You can learn more from the on-line
documenatation:

    http://e-docs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/doc/en/core/index.html

// Gregory Murphy.  Isopaleocopria.

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