#111 Dealing with large file.

[Jak Wings]

Can xmlstarlet deal with this large xml file?

http://download.wikipedia.com/zh_yuewiki/20150702/zh_yuewiki-20150702-pages-articles.xml.bz2

This command works:

xmlstarlet sel -t -c '/' zh_yuewiki-20150702-pages-meta-current.xml >output.xml

This fails:

xmlstarlet sel -t -c '//title' zh_yuewiki-20150702-pages-meta-current.xml >output.xml

[Noam Postavsky]

When you say "fails", what happens exactly?

The sel command basically runs some XSLT on the input. You can see the XSLT code with xmlstarlet sel -C -t .... You could use this same XSLT with some other engine that deals better with large files.

[Jak Wings]

It crash without printing anything. The exit code is 1.

That's a pitty. Anyway, thanks for providing the solution.