Re: [xml] stylesheet imports and memory management

[Nic James Ferrier <nferrier tapsellferrier co uk>]

"James Dennett" <jdennett technocom-wireless com> writes:

> (Sent to list, CC'd for convenience)
>
> I've been planning (sorry...) to submit a patch to the libxml2
> documentation to note that the call xsltParseStylesheetDoc takes
> ownership of the document that is passed to it (i.e., guarantees to
> release it appropriately), so that code using this function must not
> free the document.  Indeed, the document may be modified as a result of
> passing it to xsltParseStylesheetDoc.

Cool. A patch to the doc looks like a good idea then.


> I'm guessing it's quite possible that the Python wrapper calls this
> function 

I wrote it and yes it does.


> and therefore has the same problems as our in-house C++
> wrappers did before I changed them to relinquish ownership when calling
> xsltParseStylesheetDoc.

Personally, I don't object to the behaviour of libxslt. I was just
confused because I knew I'd read that it *didn't* do that.

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Nic Ferrier
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