Re: [libxml++] Re: different behavior on solaris/x86 and linux/x86 of Document::create_root_node?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:51, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> > I would suggest a little debugging, maybe into libxml too. Some code
> > somewhere is probably purposefully setting a pointer to 0 for some
> > reason.
> 
> my guess would be that there is a problem with the global initializer
> object not being created. (that problem was already reported once upon
> a time on a windows platform).
> 
> Remember that libxml++'s wrapper mechanism is based on a libxml2
> callback that has to be initialized first. If it isn't, no
> wrappers will ever be created.
> 
> The fact that this mechanism is so fragil and not very portable
> (or so it seems) made me change the approach on my own libxml2
> wrapper...

_If_ this is the problem, and there is no simple solution, then maybe we
need an xmlpp::initialize() function instead.

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