Thank you -- I will give a go and let you know.

SCF xx

On 16 Oct 2016 10:02, "Christian Grün" <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

> The parsing runs out memory. I also tried doubling the memory to 1024MB, and
> still the same issue.

Memory consumption should be much lower if you create a database from
your input (e.g. via the GUI).

Does this help?
Christian



>
> Kind regards
>
>
> On 16 Oct 2016 09:15, "Christian Grün" <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Shaun,
>
>> I do this through the MS DOS prompt, but -Xmx does not appear to be a
>> parameter any more,
>
> If you work with the ZIP distributions of BaseX, you can adjust the
> memory setting in the start scripts (in the bin directory). Otherwise,
> you’ll need to pass it to to java, not BaseX itself.
>
>> Is there a better method for parsing large CSV files? I then want to add
>> the
>> resulting file tlk.xml to a new database.
>
> Did you check if it’s the CSV parsing or the fn:put call that causes the
> error?
> Christian
>
> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:add
>
>