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

["Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew w nosenko gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
>  > On Aug 29, 2007 3:32 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
>  > > 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
>  >
>  > Therefore, if I understand correctly the phrase "It contains the
>  > current node and its ancestors", the input document should be fully
>  > loaded into memory and parsed at first time because of root node (in
>  > any use-case, not only "<a><ab><abc><abcd> ... </abcd></abc></ab></a>"
>  > case below)?
>
>   No. A node and its ancestors doesn't make a full document. It this
>  was the case you would not be able to parse and validate documents
>  of more than 4 GB in near constant memory, which the reader allows.
>

Thanks and sorry, I misread "node and its ancestors" as "node and its
descendants" :-(

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Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew w nosenko gmail com>