Re: [xml] xmlIO extensions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:03PM +0100, Christian Engwer wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> >   Well that's the problem with your other question, what is the usefulness
> > of adding seek() support when clearly this won't work for FTP and HTTP
> > (or not work better than a read to /dev/null)...
>
> I did dive into the http/ftp code yet, but from the documentation it
> seems, as if ftp and http firstt get the data, store it in a local
> file and then operate on this file. Well... this clearly would offer
> the posibility to operate on this temporary file.

  No, that's not the case, I can't see what led you to this conclusion...

> >   I'm not 100% convinced we really need something like seek() at
> > the libxml2 level.
>
> I'd clearly prefer an other solution, but I would prefere not to
> create more temporary files. These always create portability
> problems. mktemp and these calls are libc and I'm afraid they don't
> exist under win32.

   but libxml2 does not create temporary file currently, and never did ...

Daniel

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