Re: [xml] LibXML and Perl

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:51:18PM -0700, dhogan wrote:
> I have included a sample of a script that is very simple.
>
> It opens a file with valid XML and loads it into a variable
>
> Enters a while loop.
>
> The while loop allows you to specifie the number of iterations on the
> command line. So for the number
> of times you request it will....
>
>
> Create a new XML::LibXML object
> and calls the parser_string method on the XML
>
> Then undefine any variable that it once used.
>
>
> When I run this script it will consume an additional 10 megs per second
> of memory. Is there anyone who could tell me why.

  No idea, matt answered on the Perl list it seems:
    http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-xml/560626

> Also when I use the getSomethingByName methods (getAttributeByName, and
> getElementsByName)
> they are case sensitive. I thought they we supposed to be case
> insensative.

  Hum all XML names are case sensitive. It is part of the spec.

Daniel

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