[ expat-Bugs-544682 ] Support Pull operation

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Bugs item #544682, was opened at 2002-04-16 10:34
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Category: None
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Karl Waclawek (kwaclaw)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Support Pull operation

Initial Comment:
Would it be hard to add the following functions?
 - suspend() ...suspends parsing, remembers state
 - resume()  ...resumes parsing from where it was 
suspended
 - abort()   ...cancels parsing
 
This looks like the concept of coroutines, and could 
have the following benefit: One could implement a
"pull" based  parser on top of the "push" based model 
of Expat.
 
This has recently been chosen as Microsoft's new 
approach,  i.e. in XML.NET, SAX has been replaced by
a pull based parser("XMLReader").
 
Typical pull code would look like:
 while parser.nextNode() do
 begin
  //process current node
 end;
 
It seems to me such a parser could be implemented on
top of SAX or Expat, if there was functionality as 
described above. Microsoft's MSXML3 implementation
has the IMXReaderControl interface, which allows 
exactly that. Makes me think that (maybe) MS's "pull"
implementation is implemented on top of their own SAX 
parser.
 
So, my question again: How hard would it be to add
such coroutine-like functionality to Expat?
 
Karl
 


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