Re: [xml] bug when parsing html?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:45:42PM +1300, Bevan Collins wrote:
> I finally got to the bottom of a problem I was having when parsing html from
> a thread other than the main thread.
> In the function xmlInitializeGlobalState in globals.c,
> inithtmlDefaultSAXHandler is only called if LIBXML_LEGACY_ENABLED is
> defined.
> Maybe it is documented somewhere that legacy APIs need to be enabled in
> order to parse html on a non-main thread, but I never saw it.

  Hum ... it's more a problem of using SAXv1 instead of SAXv2
the SAXv2 default handler is initialized by htmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit()
which is being called by xmlInitParser.
And as the doc says
  http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html
xmlInitParser() should be called from main if you use threads...
  For the SAXv1 handlers they are deprecated, hence the need for
LIBXML_LEGACY_ENABLED to be on

Daniel

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