Pass character stream to libxml2

Question

Hi,

I have a XML document which is received as a character stream. I wish to parse this using libxml2. Well one way would be to save it as an .xml and then open it using one of the libxml2 API's. Is there a way i can directly build a tree on this stream and parse it ?

Env is purely c++/c.

Cheers!

Answer 1

You can use xlmCtxtReadFd from parser.h. There's also xmlCtxtReadMemory, if you would rather use a block of memory than a stream.

Answer 2

Try xmlCtxtReadFd or xmlCtxtReadIO depending on your context.