Re: [xml] Access internal xmlParserInputBuffer data

[Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead gmail com>]

On 1/19/2010 17:46, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:50:15PM +0300, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
>    
> > Hi.
> >
> > First on question background. I want to use xmlTextReader API to
> > access streamed xml data.
> > Decided to allocate input buffer with xmlAllocParserInputBuffer()
> > and use read callback to provide xml data
> > (no choice here for me actually).
> >
> > Is it safe to manually set 'readcallback' and 'context' fields of
> > returned xmlParserInputBuffer?
> > Looking at libxml2 code I don't see any problems with that, but it's
> > better to ask.
> >      
>    In general I would suggest you try to use
> http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlReaderNewIO
> i.e. don't manipulate the buffer directly but let libxml2 callbacks
> call you to fill data in as needed instead.
>    
Thanks, seems to fit.
>    Now if you want to play with the internals, you can, libxml2 exposes
> them, but I can't garantee your code won't break something, only solid
> testing and careful analysis can really give insurance over such
> tweaking,
>    
Of course, I certainly understand.
> Daniel
>
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