Re: Large XML manipulation within PHP

On 23 Apr 2008, at 21:41, Steve Gula wrote:

I could but it would make things very difficult. Some of the entities around id # 100 could be affected by entities around id #11000 and would result in a file needing to be manipulated at the same time. Unfortunately, I don't think this is a top to bottom change for the information at hand.

Can you not do it with a text processor like sed? That would be a lot easier than trying to do it with SimpleXML. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Bastien Koert <phpster@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 4/23/08, Steve Gula <sg-lists@stevegula.net> wrote: >>> >>> I work for a company that has chosen to use XML (Software AG >>> Tamino XML >>> database) as its storage system for an enterprise application. We >>> need >>> to >>> make a system wide change to information within the database that >>> isn't >>> feasible to do through our application's user interface. My >>> solution was >>> to >>> unload the XML collection in question, open it, manipulate it, then >>> write it >>> back out. Problem is it's a 230+MB file and even with PHP's max >>> mem set >>> to >>> 4096MB (of 8GB available to the system) SimpleXML claims to still >>> run >>> out of >>> memory. Can anyone recommend a better way for handling a large >>> amount of >>> XML >>> data? Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> --Steve Gula >>> >>> (this email address is used for list communications only, direct >>> contact >>> at >>> this email address is not guaranteed to be read) >>> >> >> Can you chunk the data in any way, break it into smaller more >> managable >> peices? >> >> -- >> >> Bastien >> >> Cat, the other other white meat > > > > > -- > --Steve Gula > > (this email address is used for list communications only, direct > contact at > this email address is not guaranteed to be read)