Re: [xml] XML for config files

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Jason Valenzuela wrote:
> 2. xmlReadMemory() - Read in the DTD from a char[].

This is certainly wrong, the procedure is for XML documents and DTDs are
not XML documents. You have to use, for example, xmlParseDTD() to parse
the DTD.

> Are there applications where one should use the reader instead of the 
> parser? For example I'm currently using the parser's xmlReadMemory 
> instead of xmlReaderForMemory only because xmlNewDtd and xmlValidateDtd 
> want doc pointers. Beyond that I'm not sure about the difference between 
> the two interfaces.

The reader interface is a stream-oriented interface, you process as you
parse; the parser interface creates in-memory tree structures, you parse
in one go and process later. For very small documents the main concern
should be how you would like to process and manipulate the document.
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