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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:47:47 +0200
From: Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr>
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hi,

On 01/29/14 00:31, Kevin Glover wrote:
> Thanks for the comments, guys. The Wikipedia download is a single XML document, 43.1GB. Any further thoughts?
>
>

in that case, http://lxml.de/tutorial.html#event-driven-parsing seems to
be your only option.

hth,
burak