[XML-SIG] building XML docs using ?

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Thu, 17 May 2001 01:03:07 -0600


> Dear All,
> 
> I am converting many large "legacy" text files to XML.  Some of the
> original text files are upwards of 100 MB.  What is the most efficient,
> using the speed/memory metrics, way to convert these text files to XML?

1) Using SAX
2) Cutting the output docs to reasonable size

I can guarantee you you want nothing to do with XML files in the hundreds of 
MB.  You don't even want them in the MB, period.


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