From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-03-17T23:01:02+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml: handling parse errors

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:20 +0900, Mage wrote:
>  
> I found the libxml API very nice, so I started using it.
> 
> When I try to open a non-well-formed xml, two things happen:
> - errors are displayed on screen (stderr)
> - exception raises
> 
> Well, I would like to catch the error messages instead of displaying 
> them. After reading the documentation, all my ideas faded away (except 
> hacking stderr which is not I want to do).
> 

We have a (contributed) patch that addresses this (allows an error proc
to be used) that will certainly make the next libxml-ruby release. I
won't post it here since it's yet to be merged with the new code.

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk