#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Parser;

my $size= 500000;
my @base64_chars=('a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9','+','/','=');

my $string= join( '', map { $base64_chars[rand(@base64_chars)] }(1..$size));

my $doc= qq{<doc>
  <elt>foo</elt>
  <long1>$string</long1>
  <long2>$string</long2>
  <elt>bar</elt>
</doc>};

my $p= XML::Parser->new( Handlers => { Char => \&char, });
$p->parse( $doc);
exit;

sub char
  { my( $expat, $char)= @_;
    print "in ", $expat->current_element, " - ",
          "length char: ", length( $char), " - ",
          "length recognized: ", length( $expat->recognized_string), " - ",
          "length original: ", length( $expat->original_string), "\n",
          ;
  }

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Parser;
use Fatal qw(open);

my $line_size= 100000;
my $nb_lines= 5;
my @base64_chars=('a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9','+','/','=');

my $line= join( '', map { $base64_chars[rand(@base64_chars)] }(1..$line_size));
$line.= "\n";
my $string= $line x $nb_lines;

my( $long1_length, $long2_length);

my $doc= qq{<doc><elt>foo</elt><long1>$string</long1><long2>$string</long2><elt>bar</elt></doc>};

open( my $xml, '>', "$0.xml");
print {$xml} $doc;
close $xml;

my $p= XML::Parser->new( Handlers => { Char => \&char, });
$p->parsefile( "$0.xml");
print "long1: $long1_length\n";
print "long2: $long2_length\n";
exit;

sub char
  { my( $expat, $char)= @_;
    print "in ", $expat->current_element, " - ",
          "length char: ", length( $char), " - ",
          "length recognized: ", length( $expat->recognized_string), " - ",
          "length original: ", length( $expat->original_string), "\n",
          ;
   if( $expat->in_element( 'long1')) { $long1_length+= length( $char); }
   if( $expat->in_element( 'long2')) { $long2_length+= length( $char); }
  }