[cxml-devel] parsing from a http stream (no EOF at the end)

[Attila Lendvai]

>> could someone comment on this? was cxml ever meant to support such
>> use-case, just noone really needed it yet?
>
> What use case exactly? When and how should the parser "stop"? (keep in
> mind that the "last closing tag" does not neccessarily signal the end
> of a well-formed xml document)


i see, thanks. for some reason i assumed that an xml document may only
have one toplevel element.

the use-case is simple xml messaging over http.

what i would need is an option to tell cxml:parse to parse me one
toplevel xml element and return regardless of what else is in the
stream. what would also help is a hard limit on how much to read from
the stream to deal with DOS attacks, but i guess one can do that with
a wrapper stream also.

but i'll deal with this another way for now: just read in the string
from the http stream and feeding this to cxml. i've just thought i
write up my use-case for possibly adding some TODO entries if they
make sense.

thanks for the clarification!

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