Re: [xml-dev] progressive parsing of XML. Any technology out ther e?

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From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <>
To: <>
Cc: "'Guillaume Lebleu'" <>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:49 AM

> At 4:12 PM -0400 6/16/04, Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR wrote:
> >If I understand you correctly, you want to stream-parse a potentially huge
> >XML document so as not to put it all in memory, but you want to identify
> >certain branches to be tree-parsed and/or validated, etc?
> 
> I don't think  you can avoid parsing the entire document but XOM 
> <http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/> would allow you to store only 
> those parts of the tree you're interested in and throw away the rest.

Only because SAX has been excluded as an option.

Karl