[Haskell-cafe] Haskell XML Parsers

[R Senington]

Dear all,

I have been looking at using XML for a little program I have been 
writing. The file I am currently trying to load is about 9MB, and I have 
now tried to use
HaXml and HST. Without any of my own code, just a simple call to the 
basic parsers, they both use huge amount of memory.
HST is the worst and about 7GB and climbing. HaXml uses 1.3Gb.

The code I am using is
HST
xml <- readFile file_name_here;k<-runX (parseXmlDocument True) xml;print k

and for HaXml
x<-readFile file_name_here
let (Document _ _ e _) = xmlParse "t" x
let t = myFilter $ CElem e
print $ length t


I have seen on previous posts to the cafe that other people have run 
into this problem with HST. Is this a general problem with XML in 
Haskell (I know that XML parsing is a slow and bulky process but this 
seems excessive)? Is there a known solution? Does anyone have any advice?

Cheers

RS