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Re: Any suggestions for parsing large XML in the browser?

• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
• To: Jay Sridhar <jsridhar@novixys.com>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:28:26 -0400

On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 10:58 +0530, Jay Sridhar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for a Javascript XML parser for parsing large XML files
> in the browser.
Why? The browser already has a native XML parser. Is this for node.js?

>  Which means I want an event based parser to avoid running 
> into memory issues and I also don't need the whole XML DOM at once. 

> My 
> requirements rule out using jQuery ($.parseXML()). Does any one have
> any pointers?

Not without knowing your requirements. For example, you might do better
with an XQuery implementation so that you can run queries against a
subset of the data, but that depends on how often you query vs how
often the document changes.

Liam


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Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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