Re: [xml] libxml string handling

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> a while ago, there ws a discussion about string handling in libxml (too many strdups).
> what about this approach :
> 
>  >>>>
> from : http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/docs/api/objects.html
> 
> It is often convienent to get a string representation of an object for
> further processing, debugging or serialisation. There are two
> conventions for methods that provide this functionality - the first is
> when a pointer is returned to a shared copy of the string and in that
> case the method ends _as_string. The second is when a pointer is
> returned to a newly allocated string in which case the method ends
> _to_string.
> <<<<

  That mean a complete API/ABI change. Could be looked at for libxml3
if it ever get done, but in the meantime, this is unusable I'm afraid.

Daniel

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