On 07/06/2015 09:55 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:
The PropertyTree parser is not a streaming parser, it builds a tree out of the entire contents of a file. This cannot be changed. I also don't know of any DOM parser for any semi-structured language that supports this; I wouldn't know how to do this in a useful way.
I am working on a streaming JSON parser [1] (documentation is still missing though.) One of the examples [2] is a reimplementation of property_tree::read_json(). It currently parses the entire content, but only because it mimics the original behavior. It could be rewritten to build the property_tree incrementally. I just replaced the internal parser of PropertyTree (the old one was a Spirit.Classic parser) with a hand-written streaming parser (push, while yours appears to be pull) too. It's on the develop branch. The real
On 06.07.2015 10:55, Bjorn Reese wrote: problem is a sensible way to mark a tree as partial. Who wants to work with such a structure? In such cases, I'm pretty sure it would be simpler to use the streaming interface directly. Sebastian