Re: [xml] xmlParseFile

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:06:33PM -0400, Frank  Signorelli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am need of some help using libxml2.
> 
> I have a program that calls xmlParseFile("/users/signorel/config.xml").
> /users/signorel/config.xml is a well formed and valid XML document.
> 
> My program repeatedly calls xmlParseFile, modifies the document, saves it,
> calls xmlParseFile again etc.

  Are you 100% sure you freed all the data associated to each step ?

> The program works fine for hours at a time and then fails. When it fails,
> I see the message:
> 
> warning: failed to load external entity
> 
> and xmlParseFile returns NULL.
> 
> I need some way to know why libxml2 failed to load the file. After
> the warning, the file is still well formed and valid according to xmllint.
> If I restart
> my program, it works fine again for a few hours.
> 
> Any ideas on how to debug this problem or help on how to get
> more information from libxml2 would be greatly appreciated.

  Might be a memory overrun, make sure the size of your program don't
overflow your availble memory. That could lead to the symptom you explained.

Daniel

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