XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Eric Wang" <jemroc AT gmail.com>]

Hi Benson, I understand that XOM is about trees, but it also provides
a streaming API for reading large XML documents. I'm currently using
that API in my application and figured it would have the complementary
ability to write large documents as well.

This sentence in the documentation hints at such a capability using
the Serializer class: "However, since this builds the entire document
in memory, it can be problematic for large documents and less
efficient than using a Serializer, which can stream the document." I
just can't figure out how it would work looking at the documentation.
So is the documentation wrong in this respect?


On Dec 17, 2007 10:48 PM, Benson Margulies <bim2007 AT basistech.com> wrote:
> XOM is all about trees. If you don't want trees, don't use XOM at all. 
> Google StaX.
>
>
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> [mailto:xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Eric Wang
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:46 PM
> To: Tatu Saloranta
> Cc: xom-interest
> Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Writing large XML documents
>
> No, it isn't necessary for me to build a tree model. Forgive my ignorance, 
> but I can't find any mention of the SAX or Stax writers in the XOM 
> documentation. Does this require an additional library?
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 10:36 PM, Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Eric Wang <jemroc AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I am attempting to write an XML file larger than available
> > > memory.
> > > Looking over the tutorial, the section describing the toXML() method
> > > states "However, since this builds the entire document in memory, it
> > > can be problematic for large documents and less efficient than using
> > > a Serializer, which can stream the document."
> >
> > Is it necessary for you to build an intermediate tree model? If not,
> > you could just use SAX or Stax writers directly to produce xml content
> > of unlimited length, with minimal buffering.
> >
> > -+ Tatu +-
> >
> >
> >
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