Re: [xml] Huge chunks in the callback function sax.characters

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:40:48PM +0200, Hans Feder gfk de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm going to parse large xml-files and therefore  using SAX seems a good
> idea.
>
> When I parse throught the file I got no more than 4000 bytes. I assume this
> is the maximum of the xmlChar length. I don't find any hints whether in the
> documentation nor in the mailing list how I can increase the buffersize.
> Is there any possiblity to handle such huge chunks with libxml->sax?

You can't change the size. That's needed to avoid DOS attacks.
You can handle large data, you just get multiple consecutive character
callbacks instead. I think the Java SAX and expat SAX work
the same way.

Daniel

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