Re: [xml] parsing from a file descriptor

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 10:06:21PM -0300, Ricardo Quesada wrote:
> Hi,
>       I know how to parse a file, using:
>               xmlParseFile( filename ), xmlDocGetRootElement(), etc.
>
>       But, now I would like to parse xml from a file descriptor (a socket).
>
>       Should I use:
>
>               xmlParserInputBufferCreateFd(),

 yes

>               xmlParserInputBufferRead()

  no, read are done by the parser !

>       and then create document using xmlParseMemory() ?

  no !

>       or which is the best way to parse xml from an fd ?

  xmlParserInputBufferCreateFd()
  xmlNewParserCtxt()
  xmlNewIOInputStream()
  xmlPushInput()
  and 
  xmlParseDocument()


or use directly
  xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
  read xmllint.c it uses it.

Daniel

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