Re: [xml] Setting a new DTD

[Thomas Jarosch <thomas jarosch intra2net com>]

> > _impl->intSubset=NULL;
> > xmlUnlinkNode((xmlNode*)dtd);
> > xmlFreeDtd(dtd);
> >
> > This code works for me. But since this is the first time I hack on raw
> > libxml (I've been using libxml++ for some time) I wanted to know if its
> > correct. I'm not sure if it works in all cases, if I've got all the node
> > linking right and that there are no memory leaks.
> >
> > I would highly appreciate it if a libxml guru could take a look at it
> > as I intend to commit this to libxml++.
>
>   All the refernces to the items defined in the DTD like entities
> will become dandling pointers to freed areas. Might work for a
> given application, but a very bad interface to expose in a library API.
> Changing the strings in the DTD sounds safer, but probably don't
> match what you expect. I would only allow this transformation as part
> of a saving mechanism to avoid the broken references problem

Thanks for you reply, dandling pointers just smell like segfaults...
I'll go on and search for a different/better solution.

Thanks again,
Thomas