Re: [xml] xinclude and xmlParseChunk

[Lucian Smith <lpsmith spod-central org>]

* Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> [2011-03-02 06:31] writes:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:14:30PM +0000, Lucian Smith wrote:
> > Hello, all.  I am investigating how to modify a system that currently uses 
> > libxml, with its core parsing done by calling the function 
> > 'xmlParseChunk'.
> >
> > I would like to expand the capabilities of the system to allow it to 
> > expand xinclude directives.  However, all the ways I have discovered to do 
> > this seem to be incompatible with only using xmlParseChunk--the 
> > 'xmlCtxtUseOptions' function does not even check the XML_PARSE_XINCLUDE 
> > flag.
> >
> > Is there any way to access xinclude auto-expansion within 'xmlParseChunk'?  
> > Or am I going to have to pre-process or post-process the data?
>
> xmlParseChunk is somehow a hack, as it not full proper XML parsing.
>
> XInclude itself is not integrated in the parse phase, it's always a
> post processing option, for example "xmllint --xinclude" just calls
> xmlXIncludeProcessFlags() on the resulting document.
>
> You will have to use xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlags() on all the top
> element node that xmlParseChunk may return to you.

Aha--thanks!  That's good to know.  As far as I can tell, xmlParseChunk   
does not return any xmlNodePtr's--am I wrong?  If this is so, would I need
to construct my own xmlNode out of the information returned, and expand   
that with xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlags()? 

-Lucian