From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T08:52:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25109] Re: XML support in the standard lib; what exactly?

Bob Hutchison wrote:

>> AFAIK, all of the XML parsers available have event-based parsing.  NQXML
....
> Thanks for clarifying this. Just to be sure though, they don't require the
> whole document to be in memory first do they?

I know REXML doesn't.  It just reads the file in (about 100 bytes at a 
time) and parses it, notifying you of events and discarding the text as it 
goes.  I don't know about NQXML or XMLParser.

REXML Document tree parsing also doesn't *read* the whole document at once 
(IE, it doesn't slurp the file), but it *does* hold the entire generated 
document in memory.  I commented on this in the "Re: REXML behavior change 
RF" (don't know the ref #, sorry).

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