On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:01:33PM +0200, Frank Gross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I was using libxml xmlOutputBufferWrite function, but I found out 
> that when the encoder is not UTF-8, the function doesn't work. I wrote 
> my own function similar to libxml's one, excepted that I removed the 
> following two lines of code:
> 
>   /*   if ((out->buffer->use < MINLEN) && (chunk == len)) goto done; */
> 
> and
> 
>   /* if ((nbchars < MINLEN) && (len <= 0)) goto done; */
> 
> Without those two lines, the function works well even if encoder is not 
> UTF-8.
> 
> Can someone tell me why these goto instructions are needed ? Or if I 
> missed something ?

  You missed that running the encoder is costly, and doing it by large chunk
is way more efficient than piece by piece. Oh you also missed the Flush
and Close operations, i.e. you didn't took the time to understand how the
code worked I guess.

Daniel

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