Re: [xml] hexBinary type implementation in xmlschemastypes.c

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:07:28AM -0500, cbozeman hiwaay net wrote:
> I was able to reproduce the segmentation fault by modifying the item_0.
> [xsd|xml] schema tests so that USPrice is hexBinary datatype and then set the 
> USPrice element in item_0.xml to empty. The problem is I didn't check for NULL 
> content. I don't have cvs access at work so I can't produce a patch until 
> later. If you can wait, I will patch it tonight. All that is needed is:
> line 1927 of xmlschemastypes.c
> if (cur == NULL)
>     goto return1;

  done,

> I am planning to use strings to store the lexical hexBinary information 
> instead of converting to binary so that any hexBinary value can be infinitely 
> long. 

  okay... actually one would like to be able to stream over very large
hexBin strings but the API doesn't aloow this right now...

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Veillard      | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/
veillard redhat com  | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/