Re: [xml] [patch] missing calls to node tracker

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 01:38, Lukas Schroeder wrote:
> hi john,
>
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 07:35:30PM -0700, John Fleck wrote:
> > >   Applied but modified to be conditional to the option --chkregister
> > > xmllint should not have to pay the penalty for allocating another object
> > > for each node while it's not needed generally. Performances matters even
> > > for xmllint !
> >
> > I'm not clear on what this does. Could someone explain so I can add it
> > to the man page?
>
> libxml2 has two new internal callbacks:
>   xmlRegisterNode and xmlDeregisterNode
> these are of great help to language bindinds in tracking the nodes
> libxml2 internally creates and destroys.
>
> --chkregister of xmllint activates a simple node tracking scheme in
> xmllint that helps in finding out whether the tracking api "kind of"
> works (e.g. whether xmlDeregisterNode is called for every
> xmlRegisterNode).  it's a debugging aid for developers for the
> node-tracking api.

So if it said something like:

--chkregister - Turn on node registration. Useful for developeres
testing libxml2 node tracking code.

And there will be no directly visible effect on xmllint output?

Cheers,
John
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