Re: [xml] Pull parser termination

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:58:04AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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.

  Just in case you're interested it's discussed on the topic of 
an IETF draft on XML guidelines:
  http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-use/mail-archive/msg00001.html

Daniel

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