Thanks Matt.  I understand.  What about the XML::Parse::PerlSax Locator
interface, the Locale option, or the location method?  Are these things at
all related to what I'm trying to do?  If so, does anyone know of a good
resource to learn more about how to implement?  Thanks again.

Corey

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From:	Matt Sergeant [SMTP:matt@[...].org]
>  Sent:	Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:27 AM
>  To:	Corey Smith (s)
>  Cc:	'Sterin, Ilya'; 'perl-xml@listserv.ActiveState.com'
>  Subject:	RE: PerlSax to parse/search large (~350 MB) file
>  
>  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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