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+/*
+ * xmlIO.h : interface for the I/O interfaces used by the parser
+ *
+ * See Copyright for the status of this software.
+ *
+ * Daniel.Veillard@w3.org
+ */
+
+#ifndef __XML_IO_H__
+#define __XML_IO_H__
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include "tree.h"
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+typedef struct xmlParserInputBuffer {
+    /* Inputs */
+    FILE          *file;    /* Input on file handler */
+    int              fd;    /* Input on a file descriptor */
+/**********
+#ifdef HAVE_ZLIB_H
+    gzFile       gzfile;     Input on a compressed stream
+#endif
+ */
+    
+    
+    xmlBufferPtr buffer;    /* Local buffer encoded in  UTF-8 */
+
+} xmlParserInputBuffer;
+
+typedef xmlParserInputBuffer *xmlParserInputBufferPtr;
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __XML_IO_H__ */