From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1833FBBAF for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:19:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5SHJ1uJ018488 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:19:01 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22930 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:19:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5SHIwuB025905 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:19:00 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FvdgY-0005cY-00; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:18:42 +0100 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:18:42 +0100 To: Alain Frisch Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [announce] XStream: streaming XML transformation Message-ID: <20060628171842.GB32760@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <44A29ED1.6000207@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44A29ED1.6000207@inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44A2BA05.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44A2BA02.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; frisch:01 computed:01 tarball:01 notepad:01 28,:98 2006:98 wrote:01 parsed:01 caml-list:01 data:02 output:02 seems:03 programming:03 alain:03 stream:04 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0200, Alain Frisch wrote: > This is to announce the first public release of XStream, a simple > programming language for XML. Transformations written in XStream are > compiled into efficient XML stream processors: the output is computed > and produced while the input is being parsed, which makes it possible to > run some transformations on very big XML documents which could not even > fit in memory. It seems interesting, but ... I downloaded the tarball and looked at the examples and I can't tell: can XStream transform an XML file into something else? In particular we have a requirement to convert a huge XML file into tabular CSV data on the fly (while the XML is being downloaded). The XML file just consists of a very large number of ... records. Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com