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Re: Processing Two XML Files in Parallel

by mirod (Canon)
on Jul 22, 2011 at 07:08 UTC ( [id://916069]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Processing Two XML Files in Parallel

One way to do this is to use XML::Twig and Coro: have one thread parse the first input file and an other one parse the other one. Pass control between the 2 threads, after each elem has been parsed:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Coro; use XML::Twig; use Test::More; use Perl6::Slurp; use autodie qw(open); my $INPUT_A = "input_A.xml"; # input file A my $INPUT_B = "input_B.xml"; # input file B my $OUTPUT = "output.xml"; my $EXPECTED = "expected.xml"; # output file C open( my $out, '>', $OUTPUT); my $times; # global, maybe Coro has a better way to pass it around but + I don't know it my $t1= XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { elem => \&main_elem }, keep +_spaces => 1); my $t2= XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { elem => \&get_times }); # to get the numbers first, before the letters, t2 will be parsed in t +he main loop async { $t1->parsefile( $INPUT_A); }; $t2->parsefile( $INPUT_B); print {$out} "\n"; # missing \n for some reason $t1->flush( $out); print {$out} "\n"; # missing \n for some reason close $out; is( slurp( $OUTPUT), slurp( $EXPECTED), 'the one test'); done_testing(); sub main_elem { my( $t, $elem)= @_; $elem->set_text( $elem->text x $times); $t->flush( $out); cede; } sub get_times { my( $t, $elem)= @_; $times= $elem->text; $t->purge; cede; }

You will need to check that memory is indeed freed after each record. It should be OK, but I don't know exactly how Coro deals with memory, I had never used it before today.

Thank you for asking this and making me look into the problem. And to whoever mentioned Coro yesterday in the CB. This is something I had wanted to do for a long time, but I had always deferred it since I did not really need it for work. Overall it was pretty painless though, the Coro intro is quite well written.

update: also, I should have read Tanktalus answer, above, since he obviously knows Coro a lot better than I do. I am still happy I answered though, at least I learned something.

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