Re: [xml] Beta release of 2.6.0beta2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:34:37AM +0200, Stephane Bidoul wrote:
> > > IMHO, the per context callbacks are fine.
> > > The per thread callback for global errors can cause 
> > > problems when a library (or  python module for instance)
> > > is using libxml. Indeed when that library wants to catch 
> > > global errors, it must register it's own handler, therefore 
> > > overriding handlers that may haven been set by the main 
> > > application or other libraries. 
> >
> >   A lot of errors can occur outside of the context of parsing a
> > resource too. How do you handle them then ?
>
> That's my point: the callbacks mechanism is fine
> (and necessary) when you have a parser context, 
> but I think we could benefit of a per thread getLastError
> mechanism for errors not related to a parser context.

  Can you provide a concrete proposal ?

Daniel

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