Re: Special Parsing Using XML-INTO

You’ll have to look at XML-SAX Charles.

You _cannot_ do what you are suggesting with XML-SAX because what XML_SAX passes its handler is: A code to indicate the type of data (basically beginning of a specific attribute or element name, end of same, etc.), the actual name of the item found or the data for the element/attribute. As you can see - there is no way there to get the XML string - it has already been parsed out into its components.

On Nov 4, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doesn’t help.

XML-SAX will break out the components (element name and element data) just
the same as XML-INTO does. Only difference is it does it one field at a
time. Not helpful for the OP.

I can think of a risky non-guaranteed strategy where XML-SAX might help -
but it relies on the compiler internals remaining consistent and I
certainly wouldn’t want to base production code on it - a one-time routine
maybe.

​Jon,

I'll admit to not having used XML-SAX...

However, it would seem to me that it'd be easier to build a string
containing a subset of the XML from within the XML-SAX handler.

At least then you don't have to worry about the structure of the subset
data.

Though the handler might be a bit complex...since you'd have to rebuild the
string one event / data at a time.

Charles
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