Dear Ashjan, If it was me I'd do it the cheap way and not use the parser. Get the file and then read through it with your favorite language and look for starting tags you want moved, then scan until you hit the ending tag, write that out. Rinse and repeat. You can use the parser on each piece you write out.
It is surely possible to do it in both ways described and I know of other that works on small files. But this is a LOT easier. Eric -----Original Message----- From: xml [mailto:xml-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Liam R E Quin Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2019 6:28 AM To: Ashjan Alsulaimani <alsul...@tcd.ie>; xml@gnome.org Subject: Re: [xml] Xml Question On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 10:33 +0100, Ashjan Alsulaimani wrote: > > > What's the best way to approach such a task and the most efficient way > as I'm dealing with Medline database! If your input files are a few hundred megabytes or less, start with the XSLT identity transform and add empty templates to match what you want to delete. If your input is over a gigabyte (say) or you do lots of different subsets of the same document, you may find XQuery update works better for you, with a databaase (e.g. BaseX or eXistb). Liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Upcoming courses: DocBook (sold out); CSS for XML People _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
