How to parse many many xmls

[Powell]

I have a requirement to return some information from a large number of xml files
I have tried XSLT, which quickly gets overwhelmed. Found references to XQuery and it seems like it might work

I found reference to the Microsoft XQuery demo (the site seems to be down), and was able finally to find Xquery.msi elsewhere and get it going. I can get it to work on single files but have not been able to "query" a collection of file

Has anyone else had any success querying multiple files with the Microsoft.Xml.XQuery

Or is this a dead-end and should I try to build a parser using something like XMLReader

Thanks,

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Powell wrote:

I have a requirement to return some information from a large number of xml files.
I have tried XSLT, which quickly gets overwhelmed. Found references to XQuery and it seems like it might work.

I found reference to the Microsoft XQuery demo (the site seems to be down), and was able finally to find Xquery.msi elsewhere and get it going. I can get it to work on single files but have not been able to "query" a collection of files

Has anyone else had any success querying multiple files with the Microsoft.Xml.XQuery?
Both XSLT and XQuery solutions should work. Beware that XQuery is still
Working Draft and Microsoft XQuery demo is *demo* and quite old one too.
Or is this a dead-end and should I try to build a parser using something like XMLReader?

That's the most effective way provided it's feasible to query
information you need in forward-only manner and with no XPath support.
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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, XmlInsider]
http://blog.tkachenko.com