[Expat-discuss] Text data handler

[Thomás Inskip]

Yep.  That was it.  A misunderstanding of what constitutes a 
"document".  I got around the problem by priming the parser with a fake 
document start tag.  Not a pretty fix, but after that it did what I 
expected it to.

Thanks for your help.


On May 21, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Thomás Inskip wrote:

> It turns out the problem is very different, and I had made an invalid 
> assumption.  There are two "outermost" xml elements being parsed, one 
> after the other.  The first one contains no element data (only 
> attributes), but the second one does.  So I am dealing with something 
> that looks like:
>
> <a>
> <b attribute="value"></b>
> </a>
> <c>
> <d>some text</d>
> </c>
>
> But without the linefeeds.  I had assumed that the problem was that my 
> text callback handler was the problem because I already knew that my 
> element start and end handlers were being called (for "a" and its 
> sub-elements).
>
> The manual says something about needing a separate parser for each 
> "document".  What is the exact definition of a document?  Is a 
> document a data stream, or is the above two separate documents because 
> there are two top-level elements (one defined by element a, and the 
> other one by element d)?  Perhaps Expat was not meant to do what I am 
> asking it to do.