[Expat-discuss] Re: How to stop parsing...

[Carlos Pereira]

>Karam Chand writes:
> > I have a big XML file to parse. I want to stop parsing
> > after I have reached a certain element. How can I do
> > it?
> > 
> > I am using C++. startElementHandler nor
> > endElementHandler has any return values that can tell
> > the parser to stop parsing element?
>
>Expat 3.0 will require that callbacks return an XML_Status value to
>inform the parser how to proceed.
>
>With the current Expat and C++, you can raise a C++ exception to exit
>parsing.

In the present, you can do (at the end of the element callback):

if (ml->my_flag == FALSE)
  XML_SetElementHandler (ml->parser, NULL, NULL);

in the future, you can do (at the end of the element callback):

return ml->my_flag;

Not terribly different ;-)
Carlos