Re: [xml] Read tree from FILE* ?

[Trappel Martin <martin trappel ksengineers at>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:56 PM
> To: Trappel Martin
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Read tree from FILE* ?
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:32:18AM +0200, Trappel Martin wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I successfully can use xmlDocFormatDump(FILE*, xmlDocPtr, 
> int) to save 
> > my xml document tree to a file.
> >
> > However, I seem unable to find out how to _read_ a document 
> tree from 
> > a FILE*.
> > Is there an opposite funtion to xmlDocDump?
> >
> > (The reason why I want to use FILE* is that I'm on windows and 
> > therefore my filenames are UTF-16 which I can't give to libxml. If 
> > there is another solution to this problem than via opening the file 
> > myself I would also take that one. :)
>
>   And if your program and libxml2 happen to have been 
> compiled with even slightly different flags, the library and 
> your program will expect different version of FILE * 
> structure and this will crash and burn. This is such a 
> problem that basically I avoid this in API.
>   You can certainly create what you need based on
>     http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#xmlReadIO

Thanks for the pointer. Will certainly look into this.
(And, yes, already had a crach with FILE* ... That's why I recompiled
libxml2 to use the same lib as our app ... But you're probablby right when
you say one is better of not depending on this api :)


Any Windows users out there who'd share (some example code) how they get
around the windows-filenames issue?


Cheers,
Martin