NSXMLParser useless with HUGE files
NSXMLParser useless with HUGE files
- Subject: NSXMLParser useless with HUGE files
- From: Matt Gough <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:26:53 +0000
I have a 1.91GB (2,048,406,952 bytes to be precise) xml file that I
am trying to parse. I thought that NSXMLParser would be able to cope
with it, but it can't as it fails with NSXMLParserOutOfMemoryError.
E.g
NSXMLParser* parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:
[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]];
[parser setDelegate:self];
[parser parse];
[parser release];
It seems that during initWithContentsOfURL it tries to read in the
entire file! Why can't it just be streamed in as needed during
[parser parse]?
So then I thought that maybe I could do:
NSData* mappedData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfMappedFile:path];
NSXMLParser* parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWith
Data:mappedData];
But it still runs out of memory.
Would CFXMLParser be any better, or would it suffer the same problem?
BTW - Can anyone suggest a text editor that is able to work with such
a file so that I can chop it down into more manageable portions that
I can parse individually and then merge the results?
Matt Gough
Softchaos Limited
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