xml_split - cut a big XML file into smaller chunks
xml_split takes a (presumably big) XML file and split it in several smaller files. The memory used is the memory needed for the biggest chunk (ie memory is reused for each new chunk).
xml_split
It can split at a given level in the tree (the default, splits children of the root), or on a condition (using the subset of XPath understood by XML::Twig, so section or /doc/section).
section
/doc/section
Each generated file is replaced by a processing instruction that will allow xml_merge to rebuild the original document. The processing instruction format is <?merge subdocs=[01] :<filename> ?>
xml_merge
<?merge subdocs=[01] :<filename> ?>
File names are <file>-<nb>.xml, with <file>-00.xml holding the main document.
level to cut at: 1 generates a file for each child of the root, 2 for each grand child
defaults to 1
generate a file for each element that passes the condition
xml_split -c <section> will put each section element in its own file (nested sections are handled too)
Note that at the moment this option is a lot slower than using -l
-l
generates files of (approximately) <size>. The content of each file is enclosed in a new element (xml_split::root), so it's well-formed XML. The size can be given in bytes, Kb, Mb or Gb.
xml_split::root
groups <nb> elements in a single file. The content of each file is enclosed in a new element (xml_split::root), so it's well-formed XML.
base name for the output, files will be named <base>-<nb><.ext>
<nb> is a sequence number, see below --nb_digits <ext> is an extension, see below --extension
--nb_digits
--extension
defaults to the original file name (if available) or out (if input comes from the standard input)
out
number of digits in the sequence number for each file
if more digits than <nb> are needed, then they are used: if --nb_digits 2 is used and 112 files are generated they will be named <file>-01.xml to <file>-112.xml
--nb_digits 2
<file>-01.xml
<file>-112.xml
defaults to 2
extension to use for generated files
defaults to the original file extension or .xml
.xml
use XInclude elements instead of Processing Instructions to mark where sub files need to be included
verbose output
Note that this option can slow down processing considerably (by an order of magnitude) when generating lots of small documents
outputs version and exit
short help
man (requires pod2text to be in the path)
xml_split foo.xml # split at level 1 xml_split -l 2 foo.xml # split at level 2 xml_split -c section foo.xml # a file is generated for each section element # nested sections are split properly
XML::Twig, xml_merge
any idea welcome! I have already implemented most of what I thought would improve performances.
XInclude is a good candidate (alpha support added in 0.04).
using entities, which would seem the natural way to do it, doesn't work, as they make it impossible to have both the main document and the sub docs to be well-formed if the sub docs include sub-sub docs (you can't have entity declarations in an entity)
Michel Rodriguez <mirod@cpan.org>
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cpanm
cpanm XML::Twig
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