[oXygen-user] Large XML file

[Andrew Welch]

> Searching for data is also really slow.  The kind of thing we want to do
> is to locate, say, a student with a particular HUSID to check data
> errors discovered for that student's entry.
>
> Entering an XPath query like (with an, obviously, invalid HUSID):
>
> (/Institution/Student/HUSID[.='999999999999'])
>
> ... took several minutes, with the interface freezing after the entry of
> each forward slash.

If the XML is basically a repeating structure, you will find splitting
it into smaller chunks is more manageable that handling one massive
file.

Equally, if you want run XPaths against it then you should really be
using an XML database (such as eXist), or investigate streaming
options.



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Andrew Welch
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