Re: [xml] usage for XML xmlParseChunk

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:48:51PM -0700, Prashanth R wrote:
> My client code is making calls to
> 
>  xmlParseChunk(m_xmlContextPtr, buffer, numBytes, terminate);
> 
> with passing in chunks of XML data. Is it Necessary that these chunks need
> to have complete < and > tags .

  no as long as the document is well formed you can cut at any place.

> 
> So consider this sequence
> 
> xmlParseChunk 1 --> passing 4 characters <root
> xmlParseChunk 2 --> passing rest of the buffer
>  >
[...]
> I find that the second call fails with an error code of 73
> 
> XML_ERR_GT_REQUIRED
> 
> 
> can someone shed some help on this ?

  I would suspect a bug in your code. Use a debugger to check your
buffers when passed down to the library.

Daniel

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