[xquery-talk] XQuery - good and fast tool

Andrew Welch andrew.j.welch at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 10:00:12 PST 2009


2009/3/10 Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com>:
> There are two ways of handling XML that is too large to fit in memory:
>
> * with an XML database
>
> * with a streaming processor

a potential 3rd is:

* split it into multiple smaller files, then use collection() and
saxon:discard-document

(...but how you split it might be an issue :) only really applies if
you have control over the generation of the file in the first place,
and can generate many files instead of 1 big one)



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