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Very fast parser (php) for huge xml-feeds

I need a very fast php parsing implementation for parsing huge xml-feeeds on the fly, it would be very important that the parser starts parsing when the data comes in, not only when the whole feed is downloaded. I tried simplepie but still looking for something faster! Any suggestions?

Solution

  • With the PHP XML parser you can parse chunk by chunk: http://php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse.php

    So you can load the XML file line by line and push it to your XML parser. Without any surrounding framework, I expect this to be the fastest.

    I'm not sure what will happen if you load the XML directly by http://…, if it is possible to read the content before the whole file is loaded.