diff --git a/core/src/test/java/apoc/load/XmlTest.java b/core/src/test/java/apoc/load/XmlTest.java
index 625860ac68..d9db827af9 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/apoc/load/XmlTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/apoc/load/XmlTest.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
 import org.neo4j.graphdb.QueryExecutionException;
+import org.neo4j.graphdb.ResourceIterator;
 import org.neo4j.internal.helpers.collection.Iterables;
 import org.neo4j.internal.helpers.collection.Iterators;
 import org.neo4j.test.rule.DbmsRule;
@@ -56,6 +57,25 @@ public void testLoadXml() {
                 });
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testLoadXmlAsStream() {
+        testResult(db, "CALL apoc.load.xml('file:databases.xml', '/parent/child')", //  YIELD value RETURN value
+                (res) -> {
+                    final ResourceIterator<Map<String, Object>> value = res.columnAs("value");
+                    final Map<String, String> expectedFirstRow = Map.of("_type", "child", "name", "Neo4j", "_text", "Neo4j is a graph database");
+                    final Map<String, Object> expectedSecondRow = Map.of("_type", "child", "name", "relational", "_children",
+                            List.of(
+                                    Map.of("_type", "grandchild", "name", "MySQL", "_text", "MySQL is a database & relational"),
+                                    Map.of("_type", "grandchild", "name", "Postgres", "_text", "Postgres is a relational database")
+                            ));
+                    Map<String, Object> next = value.next();
+                    assertEquals(expectedFirstRow, next);
+                    next = value.next();
+                    assertEquals(expectedSecondRow, next);
+                    assertFalse(value.hasNext());
+                });
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testMixedContent() {
         testCall(db, "CALL apoc.load.xml('" + TestUtil.getUrlFileName("xml/mixedcontent.xml") + "')", //  YIELD value RETURN value
diff --git a/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/partials/usage/apoc.load.xml.adoc b/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/partials/usage/apoc.load.xml.adoc
index 3ce15e8933..c68bfb49ca 100644
--- a/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/partials/usage/apoc.load.xml.adoc
+++ b/docs/asciidoc/modules/ROOT/partials/usage/apoc.load.xml.adoc
@@ -277,6 +277,118 @@ RETURN author;
 | "Ralls, Kim"
 |===
 
+
+=== Avoid OOM using Xpath
+
+Generally, to avoid Heap Space Errors,
+to handle large files you should always try to return the result as a stream, and not as a unique result, to avoid `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space`, if possible
+For example, with a file like this:
+.book.xml
+[largeFile,xml]
+----
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- <graphml xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/1.0/graphml.xsd"> -->
+<graphml name="databases">
+<key id="name" for="node" attr.name="name"/>
+<key id="tagline" for="node" attr.name="tagline"/>
+<key id="title" for="node" attr.name="title"/>
+<key id="labels" for="node" attr.name="labels"/>
+<key id="summary" for="edge" attr.name="summary"/>
+<key id="label" for="edge" attr.name="label"/>
+<graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">
+  <node id="n0" labels=":Movie"><data key="labels">:Movie</data><data key="title">The Matrix</data><data key="tagline">Welcome to the Real World</data><data key="released">1999</data></node>
+  <node id="n1" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1964</data><data key="name">Keanu Reeves</data></node>
+  <node id="n2" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1967</data><data key="name">Carrie-Anne Moss</data></node>
+  <node id="n3" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1961</data><data key="name">Laurence Fishburne</data></node>
+  <node id="n4" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1960</data><data key="name">Hugo Weaving</data></node>
+  <node id="n5" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1967</data><data key="name">Lilly Wachowski</data></node>
+  <node id="n6" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1965</data><data key="name">Lana Wachowski</data></node>
+    // a lot of other node tags...
+
+  <edge id="e17" source="n3" target="n10" label="ACTED_IN"><data key="label">ACTED_IN</data><data key="roles">["Morpheus"]</data></edge>
+  <edge id="e18" source="n4" target="n10" label="ACTED_IN"><data key="label">ACTED_IN</data><data key="roles">["Agent Smith"]</data></edge>
+    // a lot of other edge tags...
+
+  <foo id="id2">foo2</foo>
+  <foo id="id3">foo3</foo>
+ // ...
+</graph>
+</graphml>
+
+----
+
+you can extract all the children of the `graph` tag via:
+
+[source,cypher]
+----
+CALL apoc.load.xml('databases.xml', '/graphml/graph/*', {}) 
+YIELD value RETURN value ORDER BY value.id
+----
+
+.Results
+[options="header"]
+|===
+| value
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":"ACTED_IN","key":"label"},{"_type":"data","_text":"["Morpheus"]","key":"roles"}],"_type":"edge","id":"e17","label":"ACTED_IN","source":"n3","target":"n10"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":"ACTED_IN","key":"label"},{"_type":"data","_text":"["Agent Smith"]","key":"roles"}],"_type":"edge","id":"e18","label":"ACTED_IN","source":"n4","target":"n10"}
+| {"_type":"foo","id":"id2","_text":"foo2"}
+| {"_type":"foo","id":"id3","_text":"foo3"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Movie","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"The Matrix","key":"title"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Welcome to the Real World","key":"tagline"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1999","key":"released"}],"_type":"node","id":"n0","labels":":Movie"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1964","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Keanu Reeves","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n1","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1967","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Carrie-Anne Moss","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n2","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1961","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Laurence Fishburne","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n3","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1960","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Hugo Weaving","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n4","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1967","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Lilly Wachowski","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n5","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1965","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Lana Wachowski","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n6","labels":":Person"}
+|===
+
+
+Or if you want to include only `node` tag:
+
+[source,cypher]
+----
+CALL apoc.load.xml('largeFile.xml', '/graphml/graph/node', {})
+YIELD value RETURN value ORDER BY value.id
+----
+
+.Results
+[options="header"]
+|===
+| value
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Movie","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"The Matrix","key":"title"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Welcome to the Real World","key":"tagline"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1999","key":"released"}],"_type":"node","id":"n0","labels":":Movie"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1964","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Keanu Reeves","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n1","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1967","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Carrie-Anne Moss","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n2","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1961","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Laurence Fishburne","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n3","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1960","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Hugo Weaving","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n4","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1967","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Lilly Wachowski","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n5","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1965","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Lana Wachowski","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n6","labels":":Person"}
+|===
+
+You can also include multiple tag names with `or`, e.g.:
+
+[source,cypher]
+----
+CALL apoc.load.xml('largeFile.xml', 'graphml/graph/*[self::node or self::edge]', {})
+YIELD value RETURN value ORDER BY value.id
+----
+
+.Results
+[options="header"]
+|===
+| value
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":"ACTED_IN","key":"label"},{"_type":"data","_text":"["Morpheus"]","key":"roles"}],"_type":"edge","id":"e17","label":"ACTED_IN","source":"n3","target":"n10"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":"ACTED_IN","key":"label"},{"_type":"data","_text":"["Agent Smith"]","key":"roles"}],"_type":"edge","id":"e18","label":"ACTED_IN","source":"n4","target":"n10"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Movie","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"The Matrix","key":"title"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Welcome to the Real World","key":"tagline"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1999","key":"released"}],"_type":"node","id":"n0","labels":":Movie"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1964","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Keanu Reeves","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n1","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1967","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Carrie-Anne Moss","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n2","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1961","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Laurence Fishburne","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n3","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1960","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Hugo Weaving","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n4","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1967","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Lilly Wachowski","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n5","labels":":Person"}
+| {"_children":[{"_type":"data","_text":":Person","key":"labels"},{"_type":"data","_text":"1965","key":"born"},{"_type":"data","_text":"Lana Wachowski","key":"name"}],"_type":"node","id":"n6","labels":":Person"}
+|===
+
+See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/xpath/XPath.html[Java Xpath Doc] and https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp[w3School tutorial] for more examples and details.
+
 [[load-xml-examples-extracting-datastructures]]
 === Extracting data structures