Re: XSLT Question - Split large XML into multiple smal

Seems like a job for a SAX handler.  You could split it into the various
level 1 elements, or you could pull out each level 2 and point to them from
the level 1 elements.  Trying to use xslt would probably be hopeless since
it would have to build its own DOM first - but not from 50 MB, I'm sure
that's to big to be practical.

Cheers,

Tom P

[<Paul_Eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am an XSL/XSLT/XPath trying to break down very large well-formed XML
> files (as String messages) into smaller well-formed XML Strings using
> XSL/XSLT.
>
> I am currently experimenting with Xalan - Java 2 from apache, but am
> having a difficult time finding examples that transform XML->XML and split
> it up.
>
> Could someone help point me in the right direction?
>
> Example: large.xml
>
> <root>
>    <level 1 (one to many)>
>         <some children>
>         <level 2 (one to many)>
>             <some children>
>             <level 3 (one to very many) >
>                 <some children />
>             </level 3>
>             <trailing siblings />
>         </level 2>
>         <trailing siblings />
>     </level 1>
>     <trailing siblings />
> </root>
>
>
> Level 3 is a unit of work.  Since JDOM is used to process the unit of
> work, we need to limit the size.  A new requirement has asked for 50MB
> batch messages containing..
>
> several <level 1>
> which may contain several <level 2>
> which is likely to contain many, many <level3>
>
> I would like to parameterize either by string size and/or unit of work
> count as to how the original XML is split.
>



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