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is this the kind of thing you are looking for? <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/stephap/archive/2009/05/27/choking-on-very-large-xml-files.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.technet.com/b/stephap/archive/2009/05/27/choking-on-very-large-xml-files.aspx</a>
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is this the kind of thing you are looking for? http://blogs.technet.com/b/stephap/archive/2009/05/27/choking-on-very-large-xml-files.aspx [http://blogs.technet.com/b/stephap/archive/2009/05/27/choking-on-very-large-xml-files.aspx]

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No, it uses $xml = [xml](gc file) ....<br />
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This is what I tried and it will load the entire file into memory.. which will cause the exception.
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No, it uses $xml = [xml](gc file) ....

This is what I tried and it will load the entire file into memory.. which will cause the exception.

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Cool I used XmlTextReader and Writer.
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I have a 500mb+ xml file I need to break apart, but every time I do Get-Content file it is too large for memory. Is there any way to process each node in the root one at a time similar to reading a stream?<br />
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The error: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryExcepti<wbr />on' was thrown.
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I have a 500mb+ xml file I need to break apart, but every time I do Get-Content file it is too large for memory. Is there any way to process each node in the root one at a time similar to reading a stream?

The error: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.

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