K.S.Sreeram wrote: > From what i understand, the iterparse interface constructs the xml tree, > but gives you hooks into the tree construction process itself, so that > the programmer can control how much state he wants to retain and how > much state he can discard. > > I wanted the test program to maintain as little state as possible, so > i'm discarding all state at the earliest.
which means that your program is doing a lot more work than it has to do: instead of using the data structure iterparse is providing, you're building your own parallel data structure instead. > So can you tell me how i can use iterparse more effeciently? by using it to split your document into reasonably-sized chunks (one record, one expression, one text block, one paragraph, etc), and using Python code to process the chunks. if you're not interested in iterparse's tree-building functionality, use the bare parser interface instead (XMLParser). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
