[Fwd: Re: Expat exception handling]

[Paul Prescod]

Sorry, I put that in my outbox last night and meant it to go to the
Python xml-sig, not xml-dev. It doesn't make much sense out of context
here. :)

 Paul Prescod

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Here's how James Clark suggests to handle errors in handlers:
> 
> "The user data argument passed to XML_Parse should point to a structure
> that includes a quitParsing flag.  If you want to stop parsing the
> handler should set the quitParsing flag, and then set all handlers to
> null. Callers of XML_Parse should check the quitParsing flag on return."
> 
> In other words, we can't really stop the parse but we can stop
> responding to the parse. This avoids the platform/thread complexities of
> setjmp/longjmp.
> 
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"Ivory towers are no longer in order. We need ivory 
networks. Today, sitting quietly and thinking is the 
world´s greatest generator of wealth and prosperity."
 - http://www.bespoke.org/viridian/print.asp?t=140

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