Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] XMLReader: missing rewind()

On 29.9.2004 19:28 Uhr, Vivian Steller wrote:
> I'm missing a function like $reader->rewind() to set the internal cursor of
> the reader to its starting position.
> 
> further i didn't found such rewind() at
> http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlreader.html , the home of libxml's
> xmlreader...
> 
> i think the only way getting out is to $reader->close() and
> $reader->XML(...) again??
> 
> Can somebody help me with that?

It's a forward reading XML Parser, therefore there's no rewind (like in 
SAX..). And yes, libxml2 doesn't seem to provide such a function, either.

I don't know, if it's too complicated to add it or just against the 
principle. But as long as libxml2 doesn't provide it, we won't implement it.

Closing/opening shouldn't be an expensive task with XMLReader, anyway.

chregu

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