Re: [xml] Pull parser termination

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:25:14AM +0200, Fabrice DESRE - FT.BD/FTR&D/DTL/TAL wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I'm using the push parser to read a stream XML document. My problem is
> to know when I can safely use xmlParseChunk(..., 1) (ie end up parsing),
> since I have no way on the reading side to know if i'm at
> the end of the document.

  You have to. Any solution designed to work by having the parser 
"guess" when its stream ends is fundamentally broken.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-document
    [1]    document ::= prolog element Misc*

 Misc* clearly indicate that the framework *has to* indicate the end
of the document stream.

Daniel

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