Re: [xml] Flushing writers doesn't work...?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:20:45AM +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been using xmlTextWriters as an abstraction in an internal
> event-based system in my app -- but it seems they don't sync properly
> when flushed. Maybe I'm expecting too much functionality from
> xmlTextWriterFlush()? I've used both writers from

  it calls xmlOutputBufferFlush() if there have been some data added
to the writer, this should really work as expected.

> xmlNewTextWriterFilename() and xmlNewTextWriterTree(), and neither
> type is synced on calls to flush -- I have to destroy the writer with
> xmlFreeTextWriter() to get the events into the file or tree,
> respectively. That's not very practical... Especially when I'm
> building trees incrementally -- then I have to keep track of the node
> where I want to continue when instantiating a new writer, and so on...
>
> Is there another way of doing this? Is this a bug/known problem?
> Should I write my own writers/tree builders to get this functionality?

  a better explanation of what you're seeing and how it differs from
what you are expecting would help. I still don't see what the problem
might be. You need to be very precise and provide a reproduceable test
case if possible.

Daniel

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