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On Jun 8, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > I'm working on a script that needs to be able to crosswalk at least a > couple hundred XML files regularly, some of which are quite large. [trimmed] > How do you guys deal with large XML files? Thanks, um ... I return ASCII tab-delim records, because IDL's XML processing routines have some massive issue with garbage collection if you walk down the DOM tree. However, no one in their right mind uses IDL for XML, as it's basically Fortran w/ multi-dimensional arrays. ... Everyone else is going to tell you to use SAX, and they're probably right, but as you sound to be as reluctant as I am on using SAX, another alternative may be Perl's XML::Twig: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?XML::Twig -Joe