Hi Usernet First up, thanks for your prompt reply. I will make sure i read RFC1855, before posting again, but right now chasing a hard deadline :)
I am sorry i left out what exactly i am trying to do. 0. Goal :I am looking for a specific element..there are several 10s/100s occurrences of that element in the 1gb xml file. The contents of the xml, is just a dump of config parameters from a packet switch( although imho, the contents of the xml dont matter) I need to detect them & then for each 1, i need to copy all the content b/w the element's start & end tags & create a smaller xml file. 1. Can you point me to some examples/samples of using SAX, especially , ones dealing with really large XML files. 2.This brings me to another q. which i forgot to ask in my OP(original post). Is simply opening the file, & using reg ex to look for the element i need, a *good* approach ? While researching my problem, some article seemed to advise against this, especially since its known apriori, that the file is an xml & since regex code gets complicated very quickly & is not very readable. But is that just a "style"/"elegance" issue, & for my particular problem (detecting a certain element, & then creating(writing) a smaller xml file corresponding to, each pair of start & end tags of said element), is the open file & regex approach, something you would recommend ? Thanks again for your super-prompt response :) cheers ashish -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
