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perhaps some of your code would help...post an example snippet of where the parsing is performed
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Re: Re: Huge amount of memory used with XML::DOM
by Sihal (Pilgrim) on Dec 09, 2003 at 09:08 UTC
    Ok

    This is what I used to do: 

    my $xml = getXML($url); # retrieve it thru http
my $parser = new XML::DOM::Parser;
my $doc = $parser->parse($xml);

# This first snippet would take as much as 2Gigs of memory.

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    Now, I do this: 

    my $xml = getXML($url); # retrieve it thru http
my $file  = writeToFile($xml) or return; 
my $parser = new XML::DOM::Parser;
my $doc = $parser->parsefile($file);

# This isn't even noticeable

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    Any Ideas why the first form is so greedy in memory?
    Never found anything about this in the doc.

    Thanks a lot.
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