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Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text

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Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:

> Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>>> Sometimes the XML elements come through a pipe as an endless
>>> sequence. You can still use the wrapping technique and a SAX parser.
>>> However, the other option is to write a tiny XML scanner that
>>> identifies the end of each element. Then, you can cut out the
>>> complete XML element and hand it over to a DOM parser.
>>
>> Well maybe, even though I see no point in doing so. If the whole
>> transaction is a single document and you need to get sub-elements on
>> the fly, just use the SAX parser: there is no need to use a "tiny XML
>> scanner" (whatever that is), and building a DOM for a part of the
>> document in your SAX handler is easy if needed (for the OP's case a
>> simple state machine would be enough, probably).
>
> An example is <URL:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#XMPP_via_HTTP_and_WebSocket_transports>.
>
> The "document" is potentially infinitely long. The elements are
> messages.
>
> The programmer would rather process the elements as DOM trees than
> follow the meandering SAX parser.

which does an exact traversal of potential the DOM tree... (assuming a
DOM is even defined on a non well-formed XML document).

Anyway, my point was only to warn the OP that he is not doing XML.

-- Alain.

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parsing multiple root element XML into text Percy Tambunan <percy.tambunan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 01:59 -0700
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 12:01 +0300
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 19:02 +1000
    Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Percy Tambunan <percy.tambunan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 21:12 -0700
      Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-12 10:22 +0200
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 11:13 +0200
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 19:15 +1000
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 11:51 +0200
    Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 13:33 +0300
      Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 14:01 +0200
        Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 15:31 +0300
          Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 15:38 +0300
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 15:55 +0200
              Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 18:29 +0300
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-05-09 19:52 +0300
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 21:51 +0200
          Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 17:50 +0200
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 19:15 +0300
              Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 19:16 +0200
                Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 21:04 +0300
                Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 21:46 +0200

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