Re: [xml] xmlGenericErrorFunc error handling

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Jason Aeschilman wrote:
> Other people on this list pointed out that if you're creating your own error
> handler, you have to deal with your error handler being called multiple
> times for a single error.  So here is my question:
>
> How can I safely gather the entire error message and output it to a log file
> in one line?
>
> What I have done to work around this so far is to store all the pieces of
> the error message in a static buffer (static char *) until I receive the
> piece (string) that ends in a newline character, then I copy the buffer to
> my logging function (also prepending "libxml:" to it).  Therefore, I'm
> making the assumption that I will eventually get a string that ends in a
> newline character.  I'm not sure if that's a safe assumption.

  no. You're better off using the structured error callback then.
Note than an error may generate another one, etc... 

Daniel

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