From: rb <rb@...>
Date: 2006-12-30T04:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: XML - converting from one feed to another (beginner)

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:40:18 +0900, James Britt
<james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

>(For REXML it's basically the same, but the XPath invocation is different.)
>
>Some considerations may be time and memory needs; if you are dealing 
>with large documents, a pull or stream parser would be better, but it 
>can be a bit harder to work with if you are new to it.  But see my 
>article in Dr. Dobbs: http://www.ddj.com/184406385
>
>Try the simplest approach first and see if it works, and if works well 
>enough.

Thanks for those tips.  I'm going to study what you wrote and see if I
can make it work.

The XML file is about 2.5 Mb, and the computers running the script
have 1gb of RAM.