Re: [xml] Beta release of 2.6.0beta2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:57:18AM +0200, Stephane Bidoul wrote:
> IMHO, the per context callbacks are fine.
> The per thread callback for global errors can cause 
> problems when a library (or  python module for instance)
> is using libxml. Indeed when that library wants to catch 
> global errors, it must register it's own handler, therefore 
> overriding handlers that may haven been set by the main 
> application or other libraries. 

  A lot of errors can occur outside of the context of parsing a
resource too. How do you handle them then ?

> I known it could save and restore the previous handler
> but this is quite cumbersome (it must be done in each
> entry point of the library) and maybe quite complex
> in the presence of callbacks. 
>
> I was thinking of some sort of getLastError API but
> I've no complete proposal to submit and have not thought
> about API/ABI compatibility; just wanted to test the idea. 

  Well that would be a new API so there is no compatibility 
problem.

Daniel

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