From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 20:00:56 EDT
Hi Michael,
> Does libxml provide any support for progressive parsing, or will it in the
> near future? I believe this issue has arisen before, but I am unsure of
> its current status. What I am looking for is the capability to stream in
> XML from a socket or other "slow" medium, hand each chunk to libxml as
> they come in, and receive SAX callbacks as the data is parsed. Currently
> the entrypoints appear to require an entire document to parse at once, and
> the only C or C++ library I can find with this kind of functionality is
> expat, which is awkward for other reasons. I'm assuming others would also
> desire such a feature, would it be unwise to begin using libxml on the
> assumption of progressive parsing being implemented over the next few
> months?
Yes, that's definitely in my TODO list, but it has been there for some
time now <grin/>
I cannot promises any hard deadline on libxml coding unfortunately,
but i definitely support it. Switching to progressive parsing need a bit
of rework of the parser internals (to move some state from the call stack to
the parser context), it's definitely in scope and I already worked toward
this in the past.
Daniel
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