Re: [xml] xmlreader interface

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:57:30PM +0100, Stéphane Bidoul wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I'm playing a bit with the new xmlreader interface
> (through the python bindings, everything from cvs HEAD).
>
> The API is quite interesting and that
> makes a really nice addition to your toolkit. 
> Thanks for the good work.

  Thanks. BTW I commited validation support on top of
the xmlreader API, this means libxml2 can now DTD validate
instances of any size.

> Is it too early for bug reports? I think I've found

  No, the only point is that APIs are not cast in stone, for
example I may swicth back the Python wrapper generator to 
generate an uppercase for the first letter for consistency
with the C# spec and documentation.

> a small one in moveToNextAttribute(): once the last
> attribute is reached, the reader always return
> properties of the last attribute (resetting
> reader->curnode to NULL before return 0 seems 
> to works for me).

  From what I understood of the interfaces, that's the
normal behaviour, and the MoveToElement method is the
right way to go back to the top node. If you have a C#
MS implementation around that could be a good idea to check.
http://dotgnu.org/pnetlib-doc/System/Xml/XmlTextReader.html#XmlTextReader.MoveToElement%20Method

> Then I've a small question: do you plan
> to support entity resolution through that API?
> (I've seen the ResolveEntity in the spec,
> is there another mechanism that could do it?)

  Well the normal XmlTextReader API doesn't allow entity
resolution, but there is no reason I can't add it. Basically
if you add the extra parser flags to load the DTD then
that should be relatively easy.

Daniel

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