On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:28:19PM +0800, Harbhanu wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to know the best way to do Schema validation incase I want to use > SAX parsing. > /** * xmlSchemaValidateStream: * @ctxt: a schema validation context * @input: the input to use for reading the data * @enc: an optional encoding information * @sax: a SAX handler for the resulting events * @user_data: the context to provide to the SAX handler. * * Validate an input based on a flow of SAX event from the parser * and forward the events to the @sax handler with the provided @user_data * the user provided @sax handler must be a SAX2 one. * * Returns 0 if the document is schemas valid, a positive error code * number otherwise and -1 in case of internal or API error. */
SAX is a bad API I discourage its use > Is the only way out is to do it as a separate step?? Then effectively we > will be doing parsing of the same document twice. definitely not there are code in xmllint doing this. > > Also, theoretically can schema validation be performed on a partially read > XML document?? theorically maybe and practically no, it's defined on full documents as far as I understand, though there is a notion of partial validation but way beyond my understanding of the spec, and I don't think it's possible in libxml2. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
