Re: [xml] xmlDocDumpMemory to my own buffer?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> Is there a call akin to  xmlDocDumpMemory where I can supply the buffer?

  No, for the simple reason that we can't guess in advance how much
memory a document may take.

> In netperf4, I presently use xmlDocDumpMemory and then send that buffer, 
> prefixed with a four byte length field out a socket via sendmsg().  as 
> part of porting to windows I am porting to glib and its IO channels, 
> which do not appear to have a "gathering" write a la sendmsg() and I 
> would like to avoid copying the dumped XML.

  Build your own I/O handlers and use a custom I/O dump.

> So, I'd like to be able to provide the buffer into which the doc is 
> dumped, so I can have libxml put the stuff after where the header would 
> go and then I just ahve the one buffer.

  build you own I/O handler saving to that specific block.
    http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlsave.html#xmlSaveToIO

Daniel

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