Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Hm.  I guess so.  I'll change the html-parse-buffer function into a
>> html-parse-string function instead.
> I think it is still useful to provide a html-parse-buffer function that
> can be more efficient when the intermediate string copy is not needed.

Agreed, but right now it's not clear when/how such an intermediate copy
can be avoided.

BTW, another question regarding libxml2: does it provide functions to do
partial parses (e.g. to know the syntactic context of a particular
buffer position)?


        Stefan