Re: [xml-dev] applying XPath to a very large document

[Dennis Sosnoski <dms@sosnoski.com>]

dom4j (http://dom4j.org) has some support for working with very large documents.
What's implemented now allows you to trigger events based on simple paths using
only element names (like "/ROWSET/ROW"), and you can use the events to discard
portions of the document you know you don't need to keep. The FAQ has an entry
describing how to do this.

  - Dennis

April Kwong wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to query a very large XML document (say, 100MB) with XPath.
> Is it NOT possible, unless the machine has a big memory to store the
> corresponding DOM structure?
>
> I guess this is a silly question... but I'd really appreciate some help in
> confirming
> this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> april
>
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