Parsing Large XML files w/ Ruby & Nokogiri

Question

I have a large XML file (about 10K rows) I need to parse regularly that is in this format:

    10000         


        

Answer 1

Check out Greg Weber's version of Paul Dix's sax-machine gem: http://blog.gregweber.info/posts/2011-06-03-high-performance-rb-part1

Parsing large file with SaxMachine seems to be loading the whole file into memory

sax-machine makes the code much much simpler; Greg's variant makes it stream.