Lloyd Linklater wrote:

> 
> Run it in windows?  :)
> 
> But seriously, 20k lines of XML should not take that much memory unless 
> the lines are HUGE.  How about a simplistic approach?  I know that this 
> is not intensively RUBY but it may help.
> 
> What if you were to launch it in a browser?  They display XML files in 
> formatted fashion which means that they must parse them.  You could then 
> parse through the resulting page and see if there is an error message 
> therein.  Just a text search for "XML Parsing Error" and that should 
> tell you if it worked.

Thats a very fair point actually, if it runs in the browser, it must be 
parsable. Its actually 32,606 lines!
Firefox used 500mb of RAM to open it, so in theory, libxml-ruby should 
be able to use less i would have thought? Unless its DOM methodology is 
just a lot more memory intensive?

What are peoples thoughts? Is it crazy trying to ask libxml to read that 
much into memory?

Cheers

Tim
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