Commit 6b6c11f3 authored Apr 23, 2022 by Ivan Doroshenko Committed by Ivan Doroshenko Apr 23, 2022

Issue #3276619 by Matroskeen: Document XML parsers and explain the difference between them

parent aa94a699

src/Plugin/migrate_plus/data_parser/SimpleXml.php

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		@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ use Drupal\migrate_plus\DataParserPluginBase;
		/**
		* Obtain XML data for migration using the SimpleXML API.
		*
		* SimpleXML parses the whole file into memory, which allows using XPath
		* expression in the item selector. For large XML sources it results in
		* consuming lots of memory, which can be undesirable. If you run into memory
		* issues, then consider using the 'xml' data parser.
		*
		* @DataParser(
		* id = "simple_xml",
		* title = @Translation("Simple XML")

src/Plugin/migrate_plus/data_parser/Xml.php

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		@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ use Drupal\migrate_plus\DataParserPluginBase;
		/**
		* Obtain XML data for migration using the XMLReader pull parser.
		*
		* XMLReader reader performs incremental parsing of an XML file. This allows
		* parsing very large XML sources (e.g. 200MB WordPress dumps), which reduces
		* the memory usage and increases the performance. The disadvantage is that it's
		* not possible to use XPath search across the entire source.
		*
		* @DataParser(
		* id = "xml",
		* title = @Translation("XML")