Platform: Intel i7 Windows 7 Enterprise BaseX 8.4
Today I opened an 80MB XML file in the BaseX GUI, and I was amazed at the speed of BaseX, compared to e.g. trying to open, count, and extract stuff from the same file in emacs.
What I needed from BaseX was finding the size of the contents of the second level elements (ie. the elements immediately below the root element).
The visualizations were great at navigating in the file and the Map visualization showed the sizes I was interested in. I was comparing two files with the same structure, one file with size 60MB, the other with size 80MB, and tried to figure out where the 20MB had gone.
On thing I was looking for, but did not find, was the number of child elements of a given element. I was hoping for a tooltip when hovering over an element in the visualizations (map, folder and tree), or a properties dialog when right clicking the elements in the visualization.
Is the information present somewhere? (I know the element child count has to be there somewhere, because without it, the map visualization couldn't be rendered...?)
How hard is this information to get at?
Thanks!
- Steinar
PS what I ended up doing, was selecting the elements I wanted to find the size of in map and tree, and then saving the contents of the Result view for each element. A bit more clumsy than I would have liked, but much faster than doing it in emacs.