Re: Log::XML - Request for Comments, preparing the package for a vote

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:46 +0200, Christian Weiske wrote: > > Another question for me would be: How does Log_XML handle millions of > log entries? I saw that you use a DOM object and store all log > messages in it, saving it into a file at the end. This will fail if > there is not much memory available and/or really much data get logged. > A better approach - IMO would be to write the XML head at first > (without closing tag) and each log message - as an xml > document - separately - without the xml header of course. When closing, > the finishing XML tag is written. > I did this when exporting some 1.5GiB of product data out of a shop > database into an xml file. > I think it's a bad base if you expect all log_xml drivers to use DOM - > that does not work. > > You might also consider the XMLWriter built into PHP5 (>=5.1.2): http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/book.xmlwriter.php It provides an API to do basically what Christian suggests. Cheers, Mike