Question

hi
i want to read the below file using php. the file is of very big size (in GBs). Please help me out as i dont knw much about this.

Here is the file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
    <Articles>
        <Article>
            <header>info about article  </header>

        <metadata>


                    <dc:title>title here</dc:title>
                    <dc:author>author 1</dc:author>
                    <dc:author>author 2</dc:author>
                    <dc:author>author 3</dc:author>
                    <dc:author>author n</dc:author>

                    <dc:subject>subject here</dc:subject>


            </metadata>
        </Article>

        <resume> resume infor </resume>
        </Articles>

Answer 1

If the file is that large youll probably need to use XMLReader to avoid running out of memory as opposed to SimpleXML.