On 12 Sep 2013, at 19:47, David Lee wrote: In my experience, ALL Large XML files are really collections of smaller files. I have never seen a single XML document of any large size that isnt simply <root> <row> document 1 .... </row> ..... 10 bizillion times </root>
That's certainly a very common pattern, but I've seen a few examples that don't quite fit it. For example, a database dump of 50 tables each of which fits the above pattern. Or GIS data consisting of large numbers of objects of a wide variety of different kinds. What does seem to be true is that as files get larger, it's rare for the hierarchy to get deeper.
Michael Kay Saxonica
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