[Haskell-beginners] Laziness and XML parsing

[Sean Hess]

I cannot seem to find a working example of xml-enumerator. It doesn't run: the names seem to have changed for some things, and I'm too much of a beginner to figure it out easily. 

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xml-enumerator/0.4.3.1/doc/html/Text-XML-Stream-Parse.html#t:ParseSettings


On Nov 7, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Sean Hess <seanhess at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to parse a large xml file (2GB), without putting the whole thing into
>> memory. It's pretty simple with a sax parser in most languages, you just
>> stream bytes to the sax parser, and wait for sax events.
> 
> I recommend you taking a look at xml-enumerator [1] and
> libxml-enumerator [2].  They are the SAX parsers you know from the
> imperative world but much easier to write =).  In particular, you
> don't need to rely on lazyness.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-enumerator
> [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/libxml-enumerator
> 
> -- 
> Felipe.

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