Splitting of XML

[Hemanth Pallavajula]

Hi,

I have an XML which is of size 8 MB. The size of this XML is increasing constantly. For picking up the data from this XML, we are using Castor.

The problem is that it is increasingly becoming very difficult to maintain this XML. And also, the XML is taking huge space in Cache memory as we are loading this XML from database during the server start-up itself.

Now we are looking a solution through which we can:
1. Split the XML into parts (for better maintainance)
2. Occupy less cache size

and still do the castoring for retrieving the data from the xml.

Thanks in advance

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Since you are already "castoring", why not implement some functions that would 'write' the XML file into two or more logical parts. It should be something not overly complicated since you already have the Castor stuff in place.

Or am I completely off the track. :roll:

- m

[Sandeep Advani]

There is also a SAX implementation of XSLT - its a hybrid version called STX. This will help in maintaining the cache size in dealing with this huge XML file without loading it all together.