[xml] Count elements using XmlReader

[Oliver Heyme <oheyme gmx de>]

Hi,

I have XML-files doing something like this:

<array>
 <item data="..."/>
 <item data="..."/>
...
 <item data="..."/>
 <item data="..."/>
</array>

and I am using the xmlReader!

The problem is that I would like to know how many "item" elements are  
between the array-tags!
Is there any possibility to do this without adding a "size"-attribute  
to the opening array-tag!

My XML-files can become very big that's why I don't want to use  
anything else then the xmlTextReader.

I thought about doing something like saving the xmlTextReaderPtr and  
that parse on until I found the closing array-tag to count the  
elements. Afterwards I wanted to start from the saved position again!  
But I could not get it to work!

HELP!!! PLEASE!!!

Kind regards,
Oliver Heyme
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rayGina::CORE developer