how to read large XML file in c#

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I have a very large XML file of 6 GB size i want to read it and write its output in multiple files .
I am currently using XmlTextReader and its taking 30 mins .
Please suggest some ways to reduce the processing time .

Posted 3-Sep-15 7:34am

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Maciej Los 3-Sep-15 14:45pm

Based on what condition do you want to parse xml document into few files?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-09-03T07:46:00

The tags of your questions suggest correct approach: use XmlReader. It presents no limitations to the memory resources consumed, because it does not parse anything to memory. I think there is no a way to significantly increase the speed of processing compared to this approach.

At the same time, I don't know what else you do during parsing, except the use of the reader class. You always have to do something else, and this "something else" can be slow. Apparently, I have no access to your hard drive to tell you where the bottleneck is. All I can advise is: use some performance profiler to research the problem. Please see:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms182372.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9z62c29.aspx[^].

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usernetwork · Answer 2 · 2015-09-04T08:21:00

this is my code can i improve it .

C#

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ReadEJFile("E:\\a.txt");
        }

        private static void ReadEJFile(string filename)
        {
            Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            Console.WriteLine(sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);
            XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(filename);
            reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;
            XDocument doc;

            reader.ReadToFollowing("Root");

            while (reader.Read())
            {
                switch (reader.NodeType)
                {
                    case XmlNodeType.Element:
                        if (reader.Name.Equals("journalEntry"))
                        {
                            doc = XDocument.Load(reader.ReadSubtree());
                            reader.ReadToDescendant("journalEntry");
                            var terminalId = doc.Descendants().Where(n => n.Name == "terminalIdentifier").SingleOrDefault().Value;
                            Stream xmlFile = new FileStream("E:\\Output\\" + terminalId + ".txt",FileMode.Append,FileAccess.Write);
                            XmlTextWriter textWriter = new XmlTextWriter(xmlFile, Encoding.Default);
                            doc.Save(textWriter);
                            textWriter.Close();

                        }
                       break;
                    
                }
                Console.WriteLine(sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);
                Console.WriteLine("inside");
            }          
        }
    }
}

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