[Expat-discuss] Stopping the parse

[Scott Bronson]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:38:03PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>   Here's a (slightly) better approach that we use in the Python
> bindings for Expat:  when a Python handler raises an exception, we
> clear all the handlers registered with the parser instance being used.
> This avoids having to check a flag for each callback (which gives us
> more maintainable application code), and can be just a little faster.

This sounds like a good approach.  I'll use it.  Thanks, Fred.

I just need to be sure that if Expat finds a syntax error later in
the file, that doesn't mask the "real" error I hit earlier on.

	- Scott

p.s. This gives me another idea for how to stop expat:

	buf = XML_GetBuffer(parser, buf_len)
	XML_ParseBuffer(parser, buf_len, 0)

	then, from a callback...

	bzero(buf, buf_len);

	:)