XML tools and big documents (was: Re: Is there a size limitation on XML file given to MSXSL as input?)

[Michael Kay]

>... You could thereafter deal directly with the object
store or
>even just the view (indexed into the store) and not
repeatedly reparse
>the document.

The sirens have lured you!

I have a lot of experience with storing parsed document
trees in an object database and I have experimented with
storing the Java serialization of DOM-like models on disk,
and for what it's worth, in both cases retrieving the
document takes a lot longer than reparsing original XML. The
main reason is simply that there are more bytes to read.

The only technique that I find really effective for handling
large documents is to split them up into lots of small ones.
That way you only parse the bits the user actually wants to
see.

MK


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