[xml] Q: how to parsing an XML stream by elements...

["lode leroy" <lode_leroy hotmail com>]

Hi folks,

I would like to parse an XML stream, and get DOM objects for each 
second-level node.

<stream>
<element id="1"/>
<name><first>lode</first><last>leroy</last></name>
<addr><street>broadway</street><number>1</number></addr>
<element id="2"/>
<person alias="me">
  <name>lode</name>
  <children>
    <person><name>louis</name></person>
  </children>
 </person>
</stream>

I would like to process the stream by element, so I would like to receive
element_callback(<element id="1"/>)
element_callback(<name><first>lode</first><last>leroy</last></name>)
element_callback(<addr><street>broadway</street><number>1</number></addr>)
element_callback(<element id="2"/>)
element_callback(
<person alias="me">
  <name>lode</name>
  <children>
    <person><name>louis</name></person>
  </children>
</person>
)

Having a look at the API (being new to libxml) I guess I'd best go with the 
Reader API.

Now I notice that xmlTextReaderRead() only returns after the next element 
has started,
so element_callback(<element id="1"/>) is only called after "<name" has been 
seen,
and not as I hoped, after "/>" or "</element>" has been seen

Does anyone know how to get libxml2 to do what I want to accomplish?

-- lode

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