[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Holdings Import Program

[Bill Erickson]

Dan Scott wrote:
> On 14/11/2007, Travis Schafer <tschafer at carsoncity.k12.mi.us> wrote:
>   
>
Thanks for the code, Travis!

[snip]
>
> This looks really nice, actually - it's always good to have examples
> of well-documented code that make the import process more explicit! As
> xmlReadFile() reads the whole XML document into memory, I suppose it
> would make sense for large libraries interested in using this approach
> to chunk the blocks of records up into reasonable sizes (50K records
> per file or so). import_holdings.pl, which I reworked a bit in trunk,
> suffers from the same affliction, but what are you gonna do?
>   
A SAX version might be in order... Libxml2 and Expat both provide fast 
and relatively easy to use SAX API's.  An Expat example can be found at 
http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/apachemods/mod_xmlent.c 
(search for "XMLCALL" and "parser")

Just a thought..



-bill

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