Ideas? Methods to Bulk Load XML content

[paul10s]

Getsimple newbie here, but experienced with XML.

I have a vast repository (I almost wrote suppository) of XML for my website.  XML ...that's why I chose getsimple, XML is my daily workflow.

I have about 400,000 small files, sum total of about 4 GB of content.  Much of the content is updated frequently.  

My next step is to build a semi-automated workflow to upload and maintain that content in getsimple.

Development steps:

• manually build content in Admin interface, then study how getsimple structured that content in server files
  
• build a semi-automated process that creates content in the same manner
  

I envision final workflow similar to:

• local bash scripting on my computer that uses XSLT to create getsimple XML files
  
• using FTP to sync new content with the web server (and/or making the website a git repository and syncing content that way)
  

Action:

• I invite comments to extensions that may help me in an automated workflow
  
• I invite general comments of things to do... and things not to do, when designing a workflow
  

Aside: my first few serious tries at this included Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla.  All wonderful systems---but all oriented toward hand-writing original content --- automating XML workflows in those CMS required extensive  custom programming. Alternatively, the simplicity of getsimple allows me to easily build my own backend systems (I think).