Re: [xml] SAX and buffering

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:30:18AM +0000, Ed Griffiths wrote:
> I've looked at the libxml website and searched archives and docs and articles
> but been unable to discover how to:
>
> I am using libcurl to get XML data from an http server and I want to get libxml
> to parse the data from libcurl as it comes over, calling my libxml callbacks as
> the data flows through.
>
> I'm feeling stupid as I can't see how to get libxml to do this for SAX style
> parsing.

  You can do that in 2 ways:
    - the clean way: redefine libxml I/O handlers to use libcurl
      see the xmlIO module and the example io1.c in the doc examples
    - the ad-hoc way, by building a progressive parser and feeding
      data as they arrive though libcurl.

Daniel

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