On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:50:08PM +0200, Stefan Tilkov wrote:
> Is there something like this? If so, how is it implemented? Is it
> even reasonable?
>
> To clarify: I'm looking for approaches - preferably available in the
> form of an open source library - that allow for running XPath
> expressions against an XML document without the memory requirements
> of creating a full tree in RAM.
I remembered that Uche Ogbuji recently posted a brief article about the
`trimxml` tool[0], which is included in the most recent Amara
release[1]. It seems to me that it might be similar to the hypothetical
tool you seek.
Take care,
John L. Clark
[0] http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2006-09-28/Amara_trim
[1] http://lists.fourthought.com/pipermail/4suite/2006-September/008038.html
