Re: [xml] RFE: Schema-validation API

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:13:07AM +1000, Steve Ball wrote:
> The WXS module in libxml2-2.5.11 provides an interface
> to schema-validate an instance document, given the schema
> document as either a URL or in a memory buffer.
> However, in my project I already have the schema document
> as a xmlDocPtr object (ie. it is already parsed as an XML document).
> At the moment my code serializes the schema document into
> a memory buffer and then passes that buffer to
> xmlSchemaNewMemParserCtxt.  This routine then re-parses the
> document.
>
> Accordingly, my RFE is to have a new API that accepts the
> schema document as an xmlDocPtr.  Something like:
>
> xmlSchemaParserCtxtPtr xmlSchemaNewDocParserCtxt   (xmlDocPtr doc);
>
> The code would be fairly straight-forward, in fact almost
> trivial.  I can do the implementation and submit it as a
> patch if desired.

  Yep, should be trivial to add this entry point, I take patches :)
Still I'm a bit scared that you use the Schemas implementation, I
suppose it all depends on the schemas you actually use, if simple
enough you may not hit any bug.

Daniel

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