in reply to splitting large xml documents

What you need is an XML parser to create a structure from your original file, which you can then modify and output as multiple XML files. XML::Simple or XML::Parser will probably do the trick.

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Re^2: splitting large xml documents
by inman (Curate) on Sep 06, 2005 at 09:16 UTC
    Both of these modules read the XML structure into memory. If the files are 'large' then this might be a problem. XML::Twig will handle this better.
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      Am I on the write track with this? It seems to work ok.

      Many thanks... 

      my $t = XML::Twig->new();
$t->parsefile( $Globals::input_xml_dir."TimesheetLoad_1.xml" );
my $rt = $t->root; # NikuDataBus

my $hd = $rt->first_child( 'Header' );
my $tp = $rt->first_child( 'Customers' );
$tp->cut;

my @tp1 = $tp->children( 'Customer' );
my $count = 0;
foreach my $tp1 (@tp1) {
    $tp1->cut;
    $tp1->paste( after => $hd, $rt );

    my $out;    
      open  ($out, ">$Globals::input_xml_dir\\twigs\\CustomerLoad_$cou
+nt.xml");    
    $rt->print( $out );
    close $out;

    $tp1->cut;
      $count++;
}

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        Doh!

        It misses out the Customers element.
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