Re: [xml] xinclude and xmlParseChunk

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:00:12PM +0000, Lucian Smith wrote:
> * Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> [2011-03-02 06:31] writes:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:14:30PM +0000, Lucian Smith wrote:
> > > Hello, all.  I am investigating how to modify a system that currently uses 
> > > libxml, with its core parsing done by calling the function 
> > > 'xmlParseChunk'.
> > >
> > > I would like to expand the capabilities of the system to allow it to 
> > > expand xinclude directives.  However, all the ways I have discovered to do 
> > > this seem to be incompatible with only using xmlParseChunk--the 
> > > 'xmlCtxtUseOptions' function does not even check the XML_PARSE_XINCLUDE 
> > > flag.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to access xinclude auto-expansion within 'xmlParseChunk'?  
> > > Or am I going to have to pre-process or post-process the data?
> >
> > xmlParseChunk is somehow a hack, as it not full proper XML parsing.
> >
> > XInclude itself is not integrated in the parse phase, it's always a
> > post processing option, for example "xmllint --xinclude" just calls
> > xmlXIncludeProcessFlags() on the resulting document.
> >
> > You will have to use xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlags() on all the top
> > element node that xmlParseChunk may return to you.
>
> Aha--thanks!  That's good to know.  As far as I can tell, xmlParseChunk   
> does not return any xmlNodePtr's--am I wrong?

 my mistake, I though you were using a different API. In that case
you have a document which is buiilt progressively, and if you can
wait until the end of the parse to handle XInclude, then
xmlXIncludeProcessFlags() on the ctxt->doc should be just fine

Daniel

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