Processing large XML

Processing large XML

What is the optimized method of parsing a large XML file?

Using XMLReader (http://php.net/manual/en/book.xmlreader.php) is the best method AFAIK. Because XMLReader is stream-based pull parser, the memory usage should be much less than loading the XML file.

I’ve tested on a large xml report generation and worked very well.

Additional sources:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xmlphp2.html