Hi, I need to handle XPath in a application to select some specific nodes from an XML tree.
The problem is, that the files involved might be quite large (>1GB) so DOM parsing is not an option. Now, libxml2 handles XPath with DOM, and from what I read in the archives of this very mailing list, XPath support requires to know the whole tree. Why is that ? I mean; I did read the W3 recommandation about XPath, and I still don't get it. It should be possible to support XPath with a SAX parser, ... I mean, .. why not ? or at least an XPath support that only needs a schema definition... Still, it is true that all uses I have found of XPath seemed to use DOM which is unconceivable for too large files. Thanks. -- fz _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
