On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 08:43 -0500, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 8:24 AM, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 13:14 +0000, Beginner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a huge XML file, 1.7GB, 53080215 lines. I am trying to extract > > > an attribute from each record (code=). I several problems one of > > > which is the size of the file is making it painful to test my scripts > > > and methods for parsing. > > > > > > I would like to extract a few hundred records (by any means) so I can > > > experiment. I think XPath is the way to go here. The file > > > (currently) sits on a *nix system but I was going to do the parsing > > > to on a Win32 workstation rather than steal all the memory on a > > > server. > > If your data file is on a *nix system, use > > head -200 filename > sample_filename to take the first 200 records. > snip > > Unfortunately that won't work with structured data like XML. Ah well, of course it won't. <smacks self in head> Next time I'll remind myself to think before I post.
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