Re: parsing a stream of XML over a socket
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.expat.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 4 Jun, Ben Allison wrote: > Parsing a stream chunks at a time works perfectly fine. Just make sure > you never pass a zero-sized chunk of data, as this indicates and > end-of-file to Expat. No. It's only the isFinal argument of XML_Parse() and XML_ParseBuffer(), which inidicates, if the current chunk of data is the final one or not. Empty chunks (len == 0) are OK, even with isFinal == 0. rolf > Also, are you sure that your XML is valid? > > -Ben Allison > >> Hi All, >> I have just started trying to work with expat so that I can send out >> a stream of XML data over a socket so that a client can display the >> results. I have already written the server in java and am currently >> coding up a client in C which is where expat comes in. The problem I >> am having is that C reads the socket in chunks at a time and so when >> I pass a chunk to expat it will often throw an error. What is the >> best approach for this problem? Is there a way to tell expat to keep >> parsing a stream of XML? Is expat even the right parser to use? >> Any help is greatly appreciated. >> Thanks, >> Ben Pirt > > _______________________________________________ > Expat-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/expat-discuss >