Re: [xml] why is htmlNewParserCtxt static?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:15:41AM +1000, Michael Day wrote:
> The entity loader is passed an xmlParserCtxtPtr, which allows 
> document-specific options to be passed in using the _private field and 
> used by the entity loader (as long as you don't use xmlReader :) So when 
> I parse a document I want to pass in some stuff in the _private field of 
> the context.

  Okay,

> Normally I would use xmlReadFile(), but that creates its own context and 
> destroys it afterwards and doesn't give me a chance to put anything in 
> _private. However, xmlCtxtReadFile() looks like just what I want, as it 
> takes a context that I've already created with the appropriate stuff in 
> _private.
>
> On the HTMLparser side of things I can't do this, as htmlNewParserCtxt() 
> is static and I can't call it. I want to call htmlCtxtReadFile(), but 
> first I need to create a context, set the _private field and pass it in.

  Okay, makes sense, you need to be able to bootstrap htmlCtxtRead*()
Fixed in CVS !

  thanks :-)

Daniel

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