Hi, I have a large xml file which starts with <tele> and ends with </tele> in various occurrences. How can I cplit this file into small files.I need to split all between <tele> & </tele> into separate files.

Possibly a text editor than can search for the instances of <tele> and </tele>, then save each one off as file1.xml, file2.xml, etc. Then recombine as needed. Prolix seems to be a good choice (for a Windows enviroment). Possibly a Unix/Linux equivalent or run the 16-bit version under Wine...

Can I do it with a shell script? If so, how I will read the file?Since it is xml, my entire file looks to like single line.

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The shell and common Unix tools work on line oriented text data. Since your data is all one large line, you will ultimately over flow the tool's buffer. I am not familiar with XmlMax, but I think you will need something like that. You might search the web for other solutions. If I were solving your problem, I'd create a "C" program that reads in a certain number of characters into a buffer, looks for your terminating characters, and then writes the data with the proper terminating character.

awk '/<tele/{close("row"count".xml");count++}count{f="row"count".xml";print $0 > f}' filename.xml Worked for me

You might want to look at vtd-xml, which is ideally suited for splitting xml http://vtd-xml.sf.net