We run 32-bit everything here (which is one reason why we have to stream) so I can't test loading a large XML file until I get home to see if .NET can even do it on a 64-bit machine.

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

Large XML files are not that common of an occurrence. Most computers that do use XML file types typically don't have to process enough data for the XML files to exceed gigabytes of memory.

Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) files are used by large organizations such as the United States military to store and exchange form data within an Extensible Markup Language (XML ...