Re: [xml] TextReader vis-a-vis SAX

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:50:53PM +0530, harbhanu wrote:
> > > What libxml2 creates is a sliding window over the full document. It
> > > contains the current node and its ancestors. That's the only guarantee
> So, by this does it means that a document with only one nesting will have
> the complete document in memory...
> For ex....
>       <a><ab><abc><abcd>. ..... </abc></abcd></ab></a>
> In this case its memory requirement will be almost equivalent to DOM.
> Right??

  yes, stupid design leads to stupid problems, I don't care too much
about it.

> Can schema validation, using reader, be done on the stream also, like the
> one expected from API xmlSchemaValidateStream?

  yes, hum, that was added after I made that documentation. 
xmlTextReaderSchemaValidate() used for example in xmllint if you
do a combination of --schema and --stream , see streamFile()
in xmllint.c

Daniel

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