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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Geoff Leyland
<geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> The files are large enough that I suspect it’s not practical to read the whole file into a string and then generate a table

How big are the files?  It's amazing what you can get away with these
days with modern computers!

If it's too big, then a stream-based LuaExpat way would be the
(standard) way to go.