Re: [xml] document() and import() handlers

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:58:56PM +0100, robert wrote:
>  >libxml is thread agnostic, all what is garanteed is that once the library
>  >is initialized, multiple threads can access the library...
>
> As far as I could tell, 'initializing' means some global variables (which
> all are integer-types?) are set to sane default values.

  yes, but for example initializing the predefined entities table
is not just setting integer values.

> Am I right? If not, I might have to check up on it with some more detail
> because it's not possible in my project to make a call to xmlInitParser()
> before I go multi-threaded.

  hum, annoying, there is a (small) probability of problems.

> Also, I haven't used xmlInitParser() yet because libxslt doesn't either.

  the parser calls it automatically if not done, but for multithreaded
work then it should be done first to be safe.

Daniel

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