On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:45:42PM +1300, Bevan Collins wrote: > I finally got to the bottom of a problem I was having when parsing html from > a thread other than the main thread. > In the function xmlInitializeGlobalState in globals.c, > inithtmlDefaultSAXHandler is only called if LIBXML_LEGACY_ENABLED is > defined. > Maybe it is documented somewhere that legacy APIs need to be enabled in > order to parse html on a non-main thread, but I never saw it.
Hum ... it's more a problem of using SAXv1 instead of SAXv2 the SAXv2 default handler is initialized by htmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit() which is being called by xmlInitParser. And as the doc says http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html xmlInitParser() should be called from main if you use threads... For the SAXv1 handlers they are deprecated, hence the need for LIBXML_LEGACY_ENABLED to be on Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
