Christian Biesinger wrote:
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
>> I have looked at nsIInputStream.idl and there I found read() and 
>> readSegments() but I don't know if this is what I should use, or how I 
>> should use it.
> 
> You can't use them from JS.

Right, I overlooked the [noscript] in front of it (it was rather later 
already and I was in a hurry, but found my error today).

> You can use nsIScriptableInputStream, if you know all your data is ASCII 
> and doesn't contain null bytes. You can use nsIBinaryInputStream, but 
> that's probably inconvenient.

Yes, nsIScriptableInputStream works for me because I think that null 
bytes are illegal for RDF, RSS and XML files, no?

> Or you can use nsIConverterInputStream, see 
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Reading_textual_data for that.

That's a new one for me.  I will have a look at it later today.

Thank you for your help,
Michael
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