gedit unable to open large xml file

[badperson]

I'm not sure what the problem is, I don't think it's file size.

The xml has a lot of different processing instructions, doctype markup, etc...when I try to open with gedit, it just hangs and I have to do a force quit.

I tried changing the encoding to utf-8, but that didn't work;

anyone else ever run into that problem?
jason

[Zugzwang]

What is the file size of the XML file?

What is the consumption of CPU time when the program seems to hang (use "top" to find out)? Please copy&paste here a sample output of "top". This will also tell us about your memory/swap configuration. What it looks like can be seen here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_%28Unix%29).

[odyniec]

I've had similar trouble opening large or complex XML files with gedit. What worked for me was using XML Copy Editor (http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/) -- you should be able to find it in the repositories.

[badperson]

thanks for the replies, since this is data from work I think I'll err on the side of caution and not post it here,

but I think the filesize wasn't an issue; I had two files from the same dtd, one big, one not so big, I so I don't think it was that.

I basically decided it's a good opportunity to dig in and learn emacs.
thanks again!!
bp