Best way to import XML Files

[George Simon]

That is what I was going to try to do, but it seemed (still does) like a lot
of work.


George Simon (IT Department)
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:38 AM
To: George Simon
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Subject: Re: Best way to import XML Files

George Simon wrote:
>
> Hi John, this is a Windows application so the copy *.xml big.xml wlill
merge
> all the xml files into one big one (big.xml)
> My concern was how to parse this large file when there are no record
> delimiters (each file would be one record).
> Field delimeters I'm not too concerned about because I can search for the
> XML tags.
> I could try to import the entire file into one record and then search for
> the opening and ending tags.
> Maybe Nancy has some suggestions since she does this all the time.
[...]

You could try IMPORT ASCII, with ">" as the record delimiter.  This would
at least give you one tag at a time.  You would still have to parse each
chunk, but this would break it up into managable chunks.

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