JE> I got it to compile with ghc 5.02 using JE> ghc --make -package lang translate.hs JE> The compiled version succeeds, but on a large document it uses a *lot* JE> of memory and starts paging pretty badly. Exactly. iPIII-800/192M ram died on me swapping when I tried to run compiled version with 16M big stack and input file with 100000 children in one node.
JE> Try the identity transform 'main = processXmlWith keep' on your sample JE> document and see if that runs out of heap too. If so, there's not JE> much you can do short of replacing the HaXml parser.
I tried this with ghc 5.02, and it run in 20M RAM or so. It could be less, but at least it runs, and not segfaults as hugs :) JE> I tried this as well, modifying your program to use an XML parser I JE> wrote a while ago that has better laziness properties than the HaXML JE> one. Alas, my parser also suffers from a space leak under Hugs, so JE> this only deferred the problem. Under ghc/ghci, though, it has modest JE> memory requirements and runs without paging. Is it's distribution restricted? Is it possible to get it somwhere, use it, patch it, etc? -- Dmitry Astapov //ADEpt E-mail: adept@umc.com.ua GPG KeyID/fprint: F5D7639D/CA36 E6C4 815D 434D 0498 2B08 7867 4860 F5D7 639D