Hi All, I have designed a script to extract the XML data using XML::DOM::Lite. I have parsed the xml file using the below method

 my $parser = XML::DOM::Lite::Parser->new();
    my $doc = $parser->parseFile("$file_name");

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Then I tried to parse more files, say 30, size of each file is around 5MB and I got "Out of memory" issue.

I understood that I need to dispose the garbage value stored in the memory and I have created a seperate subroutine called dispose() which is just a replica of decycle() method available in Lite, but it is not working as expected. The sub is given below.

 sub dispose {
    my ($self) = @_;
    foreach (@{$self->childNodes}) {
        undef $_->{parentNode};
        undef $_->{ownerDocument};
    if (defined $_->{childNodes}) {
        $_->decycle();
    }
    }
}

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I'm calling the method as

 $doc->dispose;

Can any one help me on this.

In reply to How to perform dispose using XML::DOM::Lite by kbraj

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