I'm currently trying to iteratively parse a very large HTML document (I know.. yuck) using lxml.etree.iterparse: Incremental parser. Parses XML into a tree and generates tuples (event, element) in...

This eventually consumes all my available memory and then the process is killed. I've tried changing the tag from schedule to 'smaller' tags but that didn't make a difference. What am I doing wron...

I have a network application (using Twisted) that receives chunks of xml (as in the entire xml may not come in its entirety in a single packet) over the internet. My thought process is to slowly bu...

I have to parse a 1Gb XML file with a structure such as below and extract the text within the tags "Author" and "Content": <Database> <BlogPost> <Date>MM/DD/YY</Date> &l...

I have been working on code that parses external XML-files. Some of these files are huge, up to gigabytes of data. Needless to say, these files need to be parsed as a stream because loading them in...

I am parsing a 700mb file, I have the following code with works fine on my test file without the line context.iter(context) and event, elem = context.next(). form xml.etree import cElementTree as ...

I have to handle xml documents that are big enough (up to 1GB) and parse them with python. I am using the iterparse() function (SAX style parsing). My concern is the following, imagine you have an ...

I would like to parse an HTML document using lxml. I am using python 3.2.3 and lxml 2.3.4 ( http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml ) I am using the etree.iterparse to parse the document, ...

I tried parsing this huge XML document using XML minidom. While it worked fine on a sample file, it choked the system when trying to process the real file (about 400 MB). I tried adapting code (i...

I'm attempting to write a parser using lxml and the iterparse method to step through a very large xml file containing many items. My file is of the format: <item> <title>Item 1</...

from lxml import etree import StringIO data= StringIO.StringIO('<root xmlns="http://some.random.schema"><a>One</a><a>Two</a><a>Three</a></root>') do...