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Stopping the SAX parser

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• Subject: Stopping the SAX parser
• From: "Sterin, Ilya" <Isterin@c...>
• Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:10:48 -0600

One of the most basic facilities of SAX parsers, I'd expect it to allow the parse process to stop and do it's clean up, etc... and proceed with a program.  Parsing large docs, once you get the info you need, it's a total waste of resources for it to keep parsing the document.

I can seem to find in docs or other groups any information on how that would be accomplished.  I mean, yes in some languages you can I guess throw an exception and the gargabe collection routine will clean stuff up as needed later.  But I'm worried about C/C++ and say Perl/XS combination, where I can kill the parser and catch the exception and continue with my program, but the memory will never be cleaned up?

Is there a way to stop the parser and envoke it's clean up routine?

Thanks.

Ilya

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