> We don't want to create new output files for every entry ( each entry > is an event, and we have approximativaly 5 events per minute). So I > have to stick with this xml input file.
Well, the overall amount of data won't change. But I can understand that decision. However, you might consider using a file per day/week. > I guess, i will parse it till I find the last reported event and update > the output xml from there, reporting only the events I am interested > in....I hope SAX won't take too much time to do all this...(let's say 1 > event = 10 tags, 5 events/minutes, xml file running for 1 month --> > 5400 000 opening tags)... Use my suggested approach 2 - that boils down to using "seek" and some hand-written parsing/buffering. A little bit nasty, but better than consuming all of that file through sax. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
