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   Re: Streams, protocols, documents and fragments

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  • From: Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
  • To: xml-dev list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: 24 Feb 1999 11:04:09 -0600

"Matthew Sergeant (EML)" <Matthew.Sergeant@eml.ericsson.se> writes:

> Perl's XML::Parser (and by logic I assume this comes from expat)
> already does this - you can attach an IO handle (which can be an
> IO::Socket if you want it to come from a socket) to the XML parser,
> tell it what the stream delimiter is (e.g. ^L) and leave it merrily
> parsing XML. You have to tell it to parse again when it stops,
> because that's how it says "I've reached the end of one stream" -
> but it works fine. This is probably true of other languages that use
> expat to parse XML for them.

I had thought that was in expat too but looking deeper I found that
it's being done by XML::Parser and not expat itself.

-- 
  Ken MacLeod
  ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us

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