Re: [xml] Custom Error Handling Dilemma

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:23:55PM -0400, John Coyle wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>       I'm new to libxml2 community so I'm not sure how relevant my
> problem is to others . I am using libxml2 (2.2.6) for validating XML
> docs against XML schemas and have implemented custom error handlers to
> catch the great parsing and validation warnings and errors. The current
> implementation of xmlReportError() invokes the error handlers multiple
> times for the same error, this makes it tricky to implement any kind of
> predictable error handling. i.e if you want to catch the error and log
> it or report it to another system. Why does xmlReportError() not buffer
> the entire error msg and report it to the generic or user defined
> handler in a single call ? That way people who implement their own error
> handlers could assume that they would only here about an error or
> warning once.
>
> Is there another way to achieve this effect that I have overlooked?

  The error layer have been completely rewritten in 2.6.0, I suggest you
have a look at the new code in that version.

Daniel

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