From: han.holl@... (Han Holl)
Date: 2003-04-18T20:13:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Libxml SAX parser?

Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> wrote in message news:<20030417225405.GX79923@perrin.int.nxad.com>...

> 
> > As far as I can see, libxml2 doesn't support this at all, so a ruby
> > wrapper, even with SAX would do me no good.
> 
> As a matter of fact, it would, and libxml2's arguably the fastest SAX
> parser out there.  It's DOM is constructed via a set of SAX callbacks.
> 

> http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/index.html
> 
> Unless you're parsing documents that are hundreds of MB in size,
> libxml2's pretty efficient.  -sc

I don't doubt for a moment that you know libxml2 better than I, but the only
constructors I could find in the docs are xmlSAXUserParseFile  and 
xmlSAXUserParseMemory. The first takes a filename, and the second a pointer to
char.
So I assumed that libxml2 doesn't do stream parsing.

I hope I'm wrong.

Cheers,

Han Holl