How to validate very large XML files?

Question

How can I validate a large XML file (>100mb)? I try to open it with IE, FX & GC and it either crashes or doesn\'t do anything.

Answer 1

In Java, and I'm sure in other languages, there are solutions for reading in an entire XML file and processing it as a complete DOM, and solutions that process the XML as a stream in an event-driven way. You would want the second kind of solution, which never loads the entire file in memory. See SAX for a Java solution to the problem.