From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2003-04-17T10:14:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Libxml SAX parser?

> I need to read XML documents from an open network socket.  Rexml's
> Document.parse_stream works fine, but is a tad slow for this
> application.
> 
> I installed libxml, but while there is a wrapper for the SAX
> parser, I haven't found a way to set the callbacks. This limits
> it's usefulness severly. It isn't in the TODO file either.
> Have I missed something here ?
> 
> None if the DOM parsers seem to have an option: Stop when you
> have a valid (complete) document, which would be just what I
> need.
> 
> Any suggestions ? (apart from don't use XML).

I haven't completed the SAX handlers, there's just some infrastructure
for it.  I prefer the text reader interface over SAX, but I haven't
done either since I haven't had a need to support SAX.  DOM + XPath
has satisfied all of my needs to date.  patches welcome though.  :)
Nag me enough about it, and I'll get to it, but it's not that high on
my list of things to work on.

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~seanc/TODO

-sc

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Sean Chittenden