Re: [xml] TextReader vis-a-vis SAX

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2007 3:32 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:50:53PM +0530, harbhanu wrote:
> > > > > What libxml2 creates is a sliding window over the full document. It
> > > > > contains the current node and its ancestors. That's the only guarantee
>
> Therefore, if I understand correctly the phrase "It contains the
> current node and its ancestors", the input document should be fully
> loaded into memory and parsed at first time because of root node (in
> any use-case, not only "<a><ab><abc><abcd> ... </abcd></abc></ab></a>"
> case below)?

  No. A node and its ancestors doesn't make a full document. It this
was the case you would not be able to parse and validate documents
of more than 4 GB in near constant memory, which the reader allows.

Daniel

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