On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Corey Smith (s) wrote:

>  Let me try this again.  Here's a sample line from the xml file I'm working
>  with:
> 
>  <conDef><name>Influenza</name><code>C12345</code><id>637</id>..............<
>  /condDef>
> 
>  I would like to search the file for the content of the <code> tag.  Once the
>  code is located, the entire line  (everything from <conDef> to </conDef>)
>  containing that code will be output.  Because the file is large,
>  speed/efficiency is important.
> 
>  Thanks for the response.

You need to do your own state management. Save the conDef, name, and so on
each time you see it (store it in your handler object somehow - the
implementation of that is up to you). Then when you get a match, you can
output everything you've seen so far, set a flag to say you've found the
match, and output everything else. Then un-set the "match" flag in the
end_element callback for </conDef> .

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