Re: [xml] When to call xmlInitParser() ?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:45:42AM +0200, robert wrote:
>  >> when i use libxml in a scenario where two or more different
>  >> parserContext are created during the runtime of the calling programm,
>  >> have i to call xmlInitParser() only once or for each parserContext?
>  >I'm just wondering if my question is either too thumb or too tough to
>  >take note of!?  If first option fits, please forgive my ignorance and
>  >answer anyhow, i'll confess my shame if i should have hit on it on my
>  >own...  8)
>
> Sorry about that, sometimes we're all a bit busy :)
>
> To answer your question: you should only call xmlInitParser() once.

  Actually it's not needed at all in most cases, the first time parsing is
done stuff is initialized when needed.

> However, it doesn't hurt to call it multiple times (unless you are running
> in a multi-threaded environment, which you don't :), it guards itself
> against that.

  Yes, unless you called xmlCleanupParser ()
This is explained in http://xmlsoft.org/xmlmem.html#cleanup

Daniel

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