""" Then we need something that allows parts of the XML file to be written to file and purged from RAM to avoid the memory problem.
Suggestions for solutions are appreciated. """ Multiple XML files is not an option, but what about general entities or XInclude? That way you don't need to change your parsing code. Using 4Suite's MarkupWriter [1] you could write the outer shell and inner subtrees to separate streams, only filling in values for the outer stream when the inner stream is complete, and your computations are ready. You can then use the writer.xmlFragment method to stitch the inner subtrees to the outer shell. MarkupWriter operates in streaming mode, so you would not be holding much XML in memory at all. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/py-xml.html -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
