Re: [xml] Count elements using XmlReader

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:55:48PM -0100, Oliver Heyme wrote:
> 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!

  You cannot go back on parsing, there is no API in libxml2 doing this.
If the XML forces you to do 2 parsing it's a design error either on
the producer or on the consumer side.

Daniel

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