Patch for new feature: event length [rt.cpan.org #51533]

[toddr]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#51533 (status was 'new')

Requestors:

• [email protected]

Attachments:

• XML-Parser-2.36+current_length.patch

From [email protected] on 2009-11-14 21:53:55
:

I'm implementing a module that will allow random access to the contents of XML files too big to 
fit into memory. I plan to scan the input file for specific element names and build byte offsets 
for the XML content of each of those elements. Using XML::Parser::Expat->current_byte almost 
allows for this but it does not leave a good way to remove markup from start events. 

The attached patch includes a new accessor method for XML::Parser::Expat called 
current_length. It wraps the XML_GetCurrentByteCount function exactly like 
XML_GetCurrentByteIndex does. The patch also includes changes to the documentation to 
reflect the new method.

Thanks for maintaing this great module.