"David Hutto" <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote
I sympathize with you. I wonder who thought that building a 1GB XML
file
was a good thing.
that was just the first listing:
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=parsing+gigabyte+xml+python&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Eeek! One of the listings says:
22 Jan 2009 ... Stripping Illegal Characters from XML in Python >>
... I'd be asking Python to process 6.4 gigabytes of CSV into
6.5 gigabytes of XML 1. ..... In fact, what happened was that
the parsing didn't work and the whole db was ...
And I thought a 1G file was extreme... Do these people stop to think
that
with XML as much as 80% of their "data" is just description (ie the
tags).
Alan G.
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