assessing jmdict kanji i have extracted all kanji entries from jmdict and placed them in manageable files for most editors each of files has about kanji entries are space separated and can be seen in a browser by using the jmdict link at tested on updated firefox inspection of the files suggest that great many entries will be irrelevant for a student of literature just a great deal would be irrelevant for a student of engineering so optimization can be considered i may look at mongodb first parsing and extraction to date has been with the curl xml library from curl com within the curl ide the japanese curl site is g robert shiplett