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Efficient Techniques for Modifying Large XML Files

Time: 00:50 EST/05:50 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

As XML has become popular as a representation format for large sources of information, developers have begun to have problems with editing large XML files. This is especially true for applications that process large log files and need to constantly append information to these files. The most straightforward way to edit an XML file is to load it into an XmlDocument, modify the document in memory and then save it back to disk. However, doing so means that the entire XML document has to be loaded in memory, which may be infeasible depending on the size of the document and the memory requirements of the application.

This article shows some alternative approaches to modifying an XML document that don't involve loading it into an XmlDocument instance.