I need to parse pretty big XML in PHP (like 300 MB). How can i do it most effectively?
In particular, i need to locate the specific tags and extract their content in a flat TXT file, nothing more.
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I need to parse pretty big XML in PHP (like 300 MB). How can i do it most effectively?
In particular, i need to locate the specific tags and extract their content in a flat TXT file, nothing more.
If it’s one or few time job I’d use XML Starlet. But if you really want to do it PHP side then I’d recommend to preparse it to smaller chunks and then processing it. If you load it via DOM as one big chunk it will take a lot of memory. Also use CLI side PHP script to speed things up.