On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 12:29 -0800, spaceman-spiff wrote: > I need to detect them & then for each 1, i need to copy all the > content b/w the element's start & end tags & create a smaller xml > file.
Yep, do that a lot; via iterparse. > 1. Can you point me to some examples/samples of using SAX, > especially , ones dealing with really large XML files. SaX is equivalent to iterparse (iterpase is a way, to essentially, do SaX-like processing). I provided an iterparse example already. See the Read_Rows method in <http://coils.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/coils/coils/file/62335a211fda/src/coils/foundation/standard_xml.py> > 2.This brings me to another q. which i forgot to ask in my OP(original post). > Is simply opening the file, & using reg ex to look for the element i need, a > *good* approach ? No. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
