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Handling Large XML Documents

There isn't a single technique for handling large XML files. Rather, dealing with large XML files is as much a discipline of planning, as it's a collection of programming techniques. The other aspect to consider is that large is a relative term. A large XML file for one project might be considered small for another project. The term large, therefore, should usually be thought of in terms of acceptable processing time rather than file size. This means that a large file is any XML file that causes delays to your process because of its size in processing.

The other way to think about what constitutes large for an XML file is to consider the size of the final internal representation used to manipulate the XML data for ...