Re: [xml] Hash tables and scanner function

[xml thewrittenword com]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:23:58PM +0200, Thomas Broyer wrote:
> I'm using xmlHashScan with an hash table with 2 keys (a name and a
> namespace URI, this is quite common in libxml), and I need these 2 keys in
> my xmlHashScanner callback.
> The problem is that xmlHashScanner receives only the first key.
>
> Would it break the API/ABI to add 2 parameters to xmlHashScanner for name2
> and name3?
>   typedef void (*xmlHashScanner) (void *payload, void *data,
>                                   const xmlChar *name,
>                                   const xmlChar *name2,
>                                   const xmlChar *name3);

I'm asking out of ignorance but why not:
    typedef void (*xmlHashScanner) (void *payload, void *data, ...);

    void    xmlHashScanFullx           (xmlHashTablePtr hash,
                                        xmlHashScannerFull f,
                                        void *data, ...)

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)