Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

[Adam Tauno Williams]

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>On 12/23/2010 4:34 PM, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
>> For large datasets I always have huge question marks if one says
>"xml".
>> But I don't want to start a flame war.
>I agree people abuse the "spirit of XML" using it to transfer gigabytes
>of data, 

How so?  I think this assertion is bogus. XML works extremely well for large datasets.

>but what else are they to use?

If you are sending me data - please use XML .  I've gotten 22GB XML files in the past - worked without issue and pretty quickly too.

Sure better than trying to figure out whatever goofy document format someone cooks up on their own.  XML toolkits are proven and documented.