Re: [xml] Is there a way using SAX2 IO Parser to ignore chars before / after a "document"?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:45:51PM -0400, Chris Hesterman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using the xmlCreateIOParserCtxt() and xmlSAXUserParseMemory()
> methods to parse XML messages being received on a socket.
>
> I have the program running, and am able to use the SAX2 callbacks to
> parse complete XML messages, as long as they come in one at a time, and
> without extraneous characters before or after them.
>
> Is there a way to use the parser callbacks to "ignore" leading or
> trailing characters between valid XML "documents"?

  No. libxml2 implements an XML parser, spaces are significant.

> And, is there a way to handle two or more XML "documents" (i.e.
> messages) within one read() (i.e. within one call to
> xmlSAXUserParseMemory()?

  No libxml2 implement an XML parser and a document with 2 root is
a fatal error.

> Any ideas would be appreciated.

  Reading at least the archives from last week would give you a detailed
explanation of why stacking mutiple XML document in a single stream is a 
broken design. Read the archives !

Daniel

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