Re: [xml] How to extend the Reader interface with a dup() function

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:58:38PM +0100, Nanning Buitenhuis wrote:
> I want to extend the Reader interface with a dup() function.
> That is, make a new reader with the same state as the current
> reader, so a trial run over the data is possible.
>
> Possible, impossible, or pointers?

  Would require special code in the xmlreader.c . Seems really hard
anyway for example if you feed the data from a socket. So In general
it sounds like too hard to make reliable and it't better to reuse 
the Reader for the same stream again.

Daniel

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