marcgear at gmail dot com (2010-08-04 10:12:53)
While this SAX event based parser is better for memory management than the tree based parsers of SimpleXML and DOM, the pull-based parser XMLReader is much easier to use than the xml_parser_* functions, and still doesn't require loading the file into memory.
nat (2009-09-04 12:19:20)
An event-based parser such XML Parser is preferable for large files, because tree-based parsers must fully load the file into memory in order to parse the XML. Event-based parsers do not need to load the entire file into memory to begin parsing.
pavel dot lishin at gmail dot com (2009-07-28 09:33:54)
If you're wanting to actually work with XML data as it was intended, treating it as a tree, try http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php .