Re: [xml] libxml2 & libcurl

[Christian Engwer <christi uni-hd de>]

Hi Martin,

> Has anyone used libcurl as the url handler of libxml2 (for xinclude at least)?
> Is it possible? How? Thoughts, problems, examples ?

I haven't used it, but it shouldn't be a problem at all.

All you have to do, is to provide the apropriate xmlIO handler. The
Interface is very easy (http://xmlsoft.org/xmlio.html). I also had a
short look at libcurl and saw an example implementing libcurls version of
fopen/fclose/fread. So you nearly have all you need to write the IO
handler... it's nearly only copy-and-paste.

If you have any quest, I can try to help you. I already have some
expirience with the xmlIO interface.

> I'd like to xinclude documents from PKI protected ssl urls. Has
> anyone experimented with something similar, or considers such 
> functionality as useful?

Sounds usefull... nobody would like to reimplement all this stuff I
guess...

Bye Christian